Noometry

Model comparison

Command A vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 Max leads 43.0 to 27.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 72.5% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
  • Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command AQwen3 Max
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.543.7
Released2025-03-132025-09-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window256K262K
Max output8K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$10$6
Results tracked2433

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding13301456
Aider Polyglot12%—
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%72.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13261448
DTBench61.3%82.1%
LMCA10.3%28.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
Chess Puzzles—4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.38

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Math13001446
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Expert12951455
GPQA Diamond—72.6%
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English13131429
LMArena Chinese13271478
LMArena French13511449
LMArena German13411463
LMArena Japanese12851397
LMArena Korean12851399
LMArena Russian13141428
LMArena Spanish13471462

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following13091419

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query13341438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Text13311439
LMArena Creative Writing13191402
LMArena Multi-Turn13391446
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen3 Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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