Noometry

Model comparison

Command A vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 47.8 to 37.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 10.3% for Command A and 29.5% for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is cheaper at $0.25 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Command AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.542.0
Released2025-03-132026-02-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K262K
Max output8K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$10$2
Results tracked2428

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Coding13301410
Aider Polyglot12%—
LMArena WebDev—1254
SciCode—29.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts13261400
DTBench61.3%80%
LMCA10.3%29.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—10%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.52

Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Math13001404
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%10.5%
LMArena Expert12951408
GPQA Diamond—83.5%

Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English13131378
LMArena Chinese13271457
LMArena French13511412
LMArena German13411367
LMArena Japanese12851325
LMArena Korean12851356
LMArena Russian13141376
LMArena Spanish13471392

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following13091379

Long Context Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query13341389

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text13311395
LMArena Creative Writing13191346
LMArena Multi-Turn13391390
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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