Model comparison
Command A vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Command A and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
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GoogleSummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.5 to 27.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 57.1% for Command A and 36.9% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 37.0 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-06-17 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 8K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1373 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 35.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 325.9 |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | 36.9% |
Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 40.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1377 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 62.8% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | 18.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 133.94 |
Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1373 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 48% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 3.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1373 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command A: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1198 |
| VPCT | — | 30% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1369 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1404 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1388 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1389 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1359 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1360 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1373 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1396 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1367 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1373 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 47.2% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1379 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1367 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1366 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 81.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
Command A and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.