Model comparison

Command A vs GPT-4o

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4o in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 12% for Command A and 45.3% for GPT-4o.
  • Both cost about the same: $2.50 input and $10 output per million tokens.
  • Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command A and GPT-4o specifications
Command AGPT-4o
ProviderCohereOpenAI
Noometry Index36.528.6
Released2025-03-132024-05-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window256K128K
Max output8K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$10$10
Results tracked2472

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Category by category

Coding Command A leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
Aider Polyglot12%45.3%
LMArena Coding13301297
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
GSO—0%
WeirdML—25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.9 (#40), GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning Command A leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
LMArena Hard Prompts13261281
DTBench61.3%64.5%
LMCA10.3%16.6%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—13%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.97
ForecastBench—57.7
LiveBench—55.3%

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
LMArena Math13001285
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.4%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
MATH Level 5—53.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%9.6%
LMArena Expert12951250
GPQA Diamond—49.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
MMLU—88.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Command A: —, GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
LMArena Vision—1137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual Command A leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English13131283
LMArena Chinese13271277
LMArena French13511304
LMArena German13411282
LMArena Japanese12851257
LMArena Korean12851234
LMArena Russian13141286
LMArena Spanish13471292

Instruction Following Command A leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following13091278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context Command A leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query13341289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4o
LMArena Text13311300
LMArena Creative Writing13191292
LMArena Multi-Turn13391302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than GPT-4o?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or GPT-4o?

GPT-4o is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or GPT-4o better for coding?

Command A scores higher on coding benchmarks: 27.2 versus 24.8 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 GPT-4o share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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