Model comparison
Command A vs Mistral Medium
Command A and Mistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 36.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 47.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 50% for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
Side by side
| Command A | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | 8K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | 37.7% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 50% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1426 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 75.5% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | 26.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command A: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Mistral Medium leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1433 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1398 |
Long Context Mistral Medium leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Mistral Medium?
Command A and Mistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 36.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Mistral Medium better for coding?
Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Mistral Medium share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.