Model comparison

Command A vs Qwen3-1.7B

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

35.9

Rank #212 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 33.5 to 15.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 57.1% for Command A and 28.4% for Qwen3-1.7B.

Side by side

Command A and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Command AQwen3-1.7B
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.926.2
Released2025-03-132025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked244

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command A: 26.8 (#317), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
Aider Polyglot12%—
LMArena Coding1331—

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.7 (#36), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Command A: 17.7 (#276), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1326—
DTBench61.3%—
LMCA10.3%—

Math Command A leads

Command A: 33.5 (#172), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
LMArena Math1300—

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 36.5 (#157), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1295—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command A: 45.5 (#166), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1313—
LMArena Chinese1327—
LMArena French1352—
LMArena German1341—
LMArena Japanese1283—
LMArena Korean1285—
LMArena Russian1314—
LMArena Spanish1346—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command A: 69.3 (#172), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1309—

Long Context Not comparable

Command A: 40.6 (#147), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1334—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Command A: 47.8 (#204), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1331—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—
LMArena Multi-Turn1338—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen3-1.7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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