Model comparison
Command A vs Devstral Small 2505
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index. Devstral Small 2505 costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 0 categories and Devstral Small 2505 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Devstral Small 2505 leads 38.9 to 27.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 37.7% for Devstral Small 2505.
- Devstral Small 2505 is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Command A | Devstral Small 2505 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-05-07 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Devstral Small 2505 leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Devstral Small 2505: 38.9 (#166)
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 56.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| SciCode | — | 28.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Devstral Small 2505 leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Devstral Small 2505: 19.7 (#252)
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 37.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | — |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | — |
| LMArena French | 1351 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Devstral Small 2505?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index. Devstral Small 2505 costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Devstral Small 2505?
Devstral Small 2505 is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Devstral Small 2505 better for coding?
Devstral Small 2505 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Devstral Small 2505 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Devstral Small 2505 has 4.