Model comparison

Command A vs Qwen3 8B

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 8B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 4 shared benchmarks.

Command A

Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B

Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 8B in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.0 to 27.2.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 57.1% for Command A and 42.6% for Qwen3 8B.
Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Command A and Qwen3 8B specifications
	Command A	Qwen3 8B
Provider	Cohere	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	36.5	33.7
Released	2025-03-13	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	131K
Max output	8K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$2.50	$0.18
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$0.70
Results tracked	24	11

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 8B leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
Aider Polyglot	12%	—
SciCode	—	22.6%
LMArena Coding	1330	—

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	57.1%	42.6%

Reasoning Command A leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
DTBench	61.3%	59.7%
LMCA	10.3%	8.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	28.8%	—
CritPt	—	0%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1326	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	136.17

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	56.1%
LMArena Math	1300	—

Knowledge Too close to call

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.3%	4.8%
GPQA Diamond	—	56.8%
LMArena Expert	1295	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Qwen3 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English	1313	—
LMArena Chinese	1327	—
LMArena French	1351	—
LMArena German	1341	—
LMArena Japanese	1285	—
LMArena Korean	1285	—
LMArena Russian	1314	—
LMArena Spanish	1347	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Qwen3 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following	1309	—

Long Context Command A leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	62.1%
LMArena Longer Query	1334	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Qwen3 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Text	1331	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1319	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1145	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1339	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Qwen3 8B?

Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command A does, with 256K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen3 8B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.