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Command A Reasoning on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Command A Reasoning scores 87.8 on IFEval, placing it #106 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
87.8
0–100 scale
Rank
#106
of 600
Percentile
82th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
8.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Command A Reasoning highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Command A Reasoning sits at #106 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 8.3 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Command A Reasoning above the midpoint.

Cohere models average 77.5 on this benchmark. Command A Reasoning is 10.3 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Cohere model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Command A Reasoning is 2.6 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 87.8 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $13.74 per million input tokens, Command A Reasoning is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
MiniMax-M2 Chat MiniMax 200000 $5.02 80.2
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Vision Anthropic 400000 $13.96 81.0
Kimi K1.5 Moonshot AI 128000 $5.19 80.7
Sonar Pro Pro Perplexity 200000 $13.59 79.7
Command A Reasoning Cohere 400000 $13.74 80.2
Doubao 1.5 Pro Pro ByteDance 128000 $14.10 80.2
GLM-4.6 Chat Zhipu AI 400000 $4.89 79.8

Other benchmarks for Command A Reasoning

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 80.2 178 70th
GPQA Diamond 76.3 112 81th
SWE-bench Verified 71.1 94 84th
HumanEval 83.6 141 77th
MATH-500 85.2 105 83th
AIME 2025 74.2 171 72th
LiveCodeBench 74.1 107 82th
TruthfulQA 83.4 95 84th
HellaSwag 87.6 157 74th
MMMU 78.2 90 85th
Arena Elo 1435.9 106 82th

FAQ

What score does Command A Reasoning get on IFEval?

Command A Reasoning scores 87.8 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Command A Reasoning rank on IFEval?

It ranks #106 of 600 models, in the 82nd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Command A Reasoning good at IFEval?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Command A Reasoning cost?

Command A Reasoning costs $13.74 per million input tokens and $51.49 per million output tokens.

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