Command A vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Updated October 21, 2026. 45 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 has a coding score, 38.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Command A has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Command A has the edge where the benchmark that matters is CaseLaw (Vals AI), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 45
- Command A only
- 15
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 only
- 38
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 leads, 30.4 against 13.1.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 leads, 26.3 against 1.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 leads, 89.4% against 48.5%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Command A has a AIME result, 13.3%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 leads, 87.3% against 69.2%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1235.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 takes 1.05M tokens against 256K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Command A $0.0075, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 $0.0026 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Command A $2.69, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 $0.57.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Command A not benchmarked, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 38.7 from 5 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 38.6 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI): Command A 7.8% against DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 77.4%, 69.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Command A $10.00 against DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 $2.716 per million output tokens, 3.7x apart.
- Context window
- Command A takes 256K tokens, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 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.
| Category | Command A | Bars | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 6 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 4 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 9 | ||
| General | 0 | 20 | ||
| All shared boards | 1 | 44 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1447 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 27.8 | 59.4 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 35.1% | 87.5% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 7.8% | 77.4% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.1% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 49.9% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 26.2% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 17.6% | 50.2% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.3% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 28.7% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| SciCode | 38.5% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 25.0% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 17.6% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 48.9% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1006.1 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1330 | 1470 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1336 | 1469 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1441 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1435 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 13.1 | 30.4 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 149.1 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.0 | 26.3 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1000 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 948 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1059 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 9.0% | 44.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.2% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 23.1% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.6% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 80.7% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $3,285 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 48.5% | 89.4% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.1% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 12.0% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 90.9% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 19.0% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 17.0% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1326 | 1461 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1296 | 1463 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1335 | 1466 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 13.3% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 76.2% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 85.7% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| AA Math Index | 13.0 | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 13.0% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 96.7% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 45.3% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 2.4% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 16.0% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1300 | 1443 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1312 | 1455 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index19
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 69.2% | 87.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 79.7% | 80.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 64.5% | 59.4% | Command A |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 46.0% | 61.4% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 61.4% | 72.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 80.5% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 19.7% | 40.5% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 71.2% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 47.0% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1339 | 1470 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1334 | 1466 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1348 | 1464 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1315 | 1443 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1235 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1222 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1229 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1202 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1254 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1240 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1140 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1148 | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index020
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 62.9% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 55.7% | 75.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| IFBench | 73.9% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 52.7% | Not measured | Only Command A measured |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 90.7% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMCA | 10.3% | 41.2% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 40.0% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| CL-bench Life | Not measured | 13.5% | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1451 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1309 | 1445 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1319 | 1446 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1344 | 1459 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1313 | 1439 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1327 | 1481 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1342 | 1458 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1285 | 1446 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1285 | 1409 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1351 | 1473 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1347 | 1457 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1314 | 1453 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1324 | 1461 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1338 | 1468 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1334 | 1458 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1328 | 1447 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1306 | 1431 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Command A | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | 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
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 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 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Cohere | DeepSeek |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | March 13, 2025 | April 24, 2026 |
| Context window | 256K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.50 | $1.225 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $2.716 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 38.7 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 5 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.69 | $0.57 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Command A better than DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 for coding?
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 has a coding score, 38.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Command A has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Command A has the edge where the benchmark that matters is CaseLaw (Vals AI), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Command A or DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423?
Command A costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 costs $1.225 and $2.716. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Command A costs $2.69 and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 $0.57.
Which has the bigger context window, Command A or DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423?
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks is the Command A vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 comparison based on?
45 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Command A's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.