Model comparison
Command A vs Granite 4.1 8b
Command A and Granite 4.1 8b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 4.1 8b in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.1 8b leads 25.7 to 18.3.
Side by side
| Command A | Granite 4.1 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 37.4 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.1 8b leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Granite 4.1 8b: 30.1 (#297)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1312 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1192 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Granite 4.1 8b: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.1 8b leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Granite 4.1 8b: 25.7 (#143)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1293 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Too close to call
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Granite 4.1 8b: 36.4 (#166)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1312 |
Knowledge Too close to call
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Granite 4.1 8b: 36.1 (#174)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1309 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Granite 4.1 8b: 41.7 (#204)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1261 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1337 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | — |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Granite 4.1 8b: 66.9 (#203)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1269 |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#193)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1275 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Granite 4.1 8b: 48.1 (#204)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1290 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1251 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1268 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Granite 4.1 8b?
Command A and Granite 4.1 8b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Command A or Granite 4.1 8b better for coding?
Granite 4.1 8b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.1 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Granite 4.1 8b share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 8b has 13.