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CodestralvsCommand A

Codestral and Command A do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Codestral is 10.4x cheaper per token. Both offer a 256K-token context window.

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Codestral
10.4x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Mistral AI · Cohere
Codestral
Mistral AI · released 2025-01-13
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Context
256K
Max out
Input /1M
$0.3
Output /1M
$0.9
Cached /1M
$0.03
Scores
1 · 1 core
Command A
Cohere · released 2025-03-13
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Context
256K
Max out
8K
Input /1M
$2.5
Output /1M
$10
Cached /1M
Scores
7 · 3 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkCodestralCommand AΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only Codestral reports · 1
HumanEval86.6% not reported
Only Command A reports · 7
MMLUnot reported85.5%
MMLU-Pronot reported69.6%
BFCL Overallnot reported63.8%
GPQAnot reported50.8%
IFEvalnot reported90.9%
MBPP+not reported86.2%
RepoQAnot reported92.6%
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Codestral minus Command A in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecCodestralCommand AEdge
Context window256K tokens256K tokensTie
Max output8K tokens
Input price / 1M$0.3 $2.5 Codestral
Output price / 1M$0.9 $10 Codestral
Cached input / 1M$0.03
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$1.2$12.5Codestral
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2025-01-132025-03-13
Cited benchmark scores17
Reliability

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