Cohere Command A Report - Safety Modes - Contextual: leaderboard

Each model gets Cohere's "contextual" safety-mode instruction as a system message and must answer the prompts that mode allows and refuse the ones it forbids; the number is the mean of the two success rates. It scores following a stated safety policy, not default refusal; the answer set was red-teamed on Command R+ Refresh.

Metric: Safety-mode accuracy (%, higher is better). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude 3.5 Sonnet82.5#746
2GPT-4o77.8#741
3Command A75.4#1274
4Gemma 2 9B (IT)72.5#2262
5Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct72.2#1092
6Llama 3.1 8B Instruct70.7#4246
7Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct70.3#2564
8Llama 3.1 405B Instruct70.3#1115
9Gemini 2.0 Flash69.7#704
10DeepSeek V366.6#716
11c4ai-command-r-08-202463.1#3374
12Command-R+ (08-2024)61.8#2551
13Llama 3.3 70B Instruct60.9#1357
14Command R7B60.9#7513

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=cohere-command-a-report-safety-modes-contextual · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.