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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Command A+

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 60.4 to 23.6.

Anthropic · Cohere · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 60.4 to 23.6, ranking #1 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Opus 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 60.4 and ranks #1 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Command A+

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic
Command A+
Cohere
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
60.4
#1
23.6
#193
Reasoning
59.5
#1
21.0
#203
Coding
49.9
#1
6.3
#211
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$4.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$20.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

3 shared
Index
Claude Opus 5.5
Command A+
Math
41.8#6
23.6#135
Vision
41.6#1
12.3#121
Multimodal
41.2#1
15.7#102
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

31 reported for Claude Opus 5.5 · 15 for Command A+

No common benchmarks found

Claude Opus 5.5 and Command A+don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Opus 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Opus 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Cohere
Command A+
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Fri Oct 23 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Opus 5.5 and Command A+ support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude Opus 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Command A+

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Opus 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Command A+ uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Opus 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Command A+

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Opus 5.5 was released on 2026-09-22, while Command A+ was released on 2026-05-20.

Claude Opus 5.5 is 4 months newer than Command A+.

Claude Opus 5.5

Sep 22, 2026

3 weeks ago

4mo newer
Command A+

May 20, 2026

5 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Opus 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while Command A+'s cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Opus 5.5's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Command A+'s cutoff date.

Claude Opus 5.5

Jun 2026

Command A+

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Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Opus 5.5 and Command A+ side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Opus 5.5
✓ Preferred
Command A+
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 5.5 vs Command A+.

Which is better, Claude Opus 5.5 or Command A+?

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 60.4 to 23.6. Claude Opus 5.5 is made by Anthropic and Command A+ is made by Cohere. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Opus 5.5 compare to Command A+ in benchmarks?

Claude Opus 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.2%, Global-MMLU: 94.3%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 93.9%, MILU: 93.1%, ArXivMath: 91.2%. Command A+ scores AIME 2025: 90.0%, CharXiv-D: 88.0%, MT-AIME 2025: 86.0%, Tau2 Telecom: 85.0%, WMT24++: 81.0%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Opus 5.5 and Command A+?

Claude Opus 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Command A+ supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Opus 5.5 and Command A+?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (60.4 vs 23.6), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Opus 5.5 and Command A+?

Claude Opus 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and Command A+ is developed by Cohere.

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