Model comparison
Command A vs Qwen Plus
Command A and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen Plus in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 23.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 63.3% for Qwen Plus.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | 1M |
| Max output | 8K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen Plus leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1328 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Qwen Plus: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1317 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 81.1% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | 24% |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1326 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1328 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1303 |
Long Context Too close to call
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1324 |
Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1336 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Qwen Plus?
Command A and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Qwen Plus better for coding?
Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen Plus share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.