Model comparison
Claude Opus 5 vs Command A Plus
Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); Command A Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 2 categories and Command A Plus in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 22.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 29.1% for Claude Opus 5 and 0.3% for Command A Plus.
- Command A Plus is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.
- Claude Opus 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
- Command A Plus has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 67.8 | 35.3 |
| Released | 2026-07-24 | 2026-05-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 128K |
| Max output | 128K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | $10 |
| Results tracked | 57 | 2 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Command A Plus: 39.3
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 56.4% | 37.8% |
| DeepSWE | 73.6% | — |
| FrontierCode | 53.4% | — |
| CursorBench | 46.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1691 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 52% | — |
| WeirdML | 91.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1534 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,165 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 65.8% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 31.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 48.7% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 35% | — |
| BALROG | 63.4% | — |
| GBAEval | 79.6% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 24% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 11,182 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Command A Plus: 22.4
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 29.1% | 0.3% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.4% | — |
| SimpleBench | 80.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 42% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 45.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1526 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 59% | — |
| DTBench | 97.9% | — |
| LMCA | 64.5% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.12 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 162.78 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 85.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 73.2% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 99% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1531 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.9% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 59.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1557 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1319 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 30.4% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 60.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1516 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1501 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1574 | — |
| LMArena French | 1519 | — |
| LMArena German | 1524 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1516 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1521 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1519 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1517 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1515 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Command A Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Command A Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1491 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2133 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1499 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 5 better than Command A Plus?
Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); Command A Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Command A Plus?
Command A Plus is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 5 lists at $5 and $25.
Is Claude Opus 5 or Command A Plus better for coding?
Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 39.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Opus 5 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Command A Plus share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Command A Plus has 2.