Command A+ vs Gemini 2.5 Flash
Updated October 21, 2026. 0 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $1.50
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- 15.5
- Output $/M
- $2.50
Decision reading
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Command A+ has the edge where output tokens cost 1.7x less.
- Shared results
- 0
- Command A+ only
- 0
- Gemini 2.5 Flash only
- 69
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash has a AA Intelligence Index result, 15.5.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash has a Design Arena: websites result, 1074.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 192K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Command A+
Command A+ $0.0010, Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.0015 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash has the number, $0.466.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Command A+ not benchmarked, Gemini 2.5 Flash not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- No category has a result for both models.
- Widest single gap
- No benchmark has a result for both models.
- Output price
- Command A+ $1.50 against Gemini 2.5 Flash $2.50 per million output tokens, 1.7x apart.
- Context window
- Command A+ takes 192K tokens, Gemini 2.5 Flash 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 28.7% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 69.5% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 13.6% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 17.1% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1423 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1425 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 15.5 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 142.9 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 31.6% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 33.5% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $549 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 36 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 79.0% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 12.1% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 33.3% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 2.5% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 41.2% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1422 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1426 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1420 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1245 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1244 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 73.3 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 73.3% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1411 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1422 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 40.4% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 83.2% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1433 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1428 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1430 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1404 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1074 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1005 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1005 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1060 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1021 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1059 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1020 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.8% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 83.0% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 50.3% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 65.3% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 76.5% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 27.5% | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1417 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1405 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1400 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1235 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1418 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1409 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1449 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1417 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1396 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1385 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1432 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1422 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1415 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1413 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1408 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1419 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1405 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1393 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1239 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1284 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1237 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1225 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1277 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1252 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1241 | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Command A+ costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Command A+ costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Command A+ costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Cohere Command A+ | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Cohere | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | September 22, 2026 | June 17, 2025 |
| Context window | 192K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.30 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.50 | $2.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.466 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Command A+ better than Gemini 2.5 Flash for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Command A+ has the edge where output tokens cost 1.7x less.
Which is cheaper, Command A+ or Gemini 2.5 Flash?
Command A+ costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.30 and $2.50. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 2.5 Flash only.
Which has the bigger context window, Command A+ or Gemini 2.5 Flash?
Gemini 2.5 Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 192K.
How many benchmarks is the Command A+ vs Gemini 2.5 Flash comparison based on?
0 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Command A+'s coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Gemini 2.5 Flash's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.