Benchmark Almanac

m-tau-bench (Cohere)

Command A Reasoning 46.5% Dropped

Agents handle tau-bench retail and airline customer service tasks translated into Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Spanish and French, plus English. Scored by average pass^1 over 10 runs.

Cohere built the translation in house and has not released it.

Made by Cohere Released Aug 2025 Customer service Tasks kept private Last in a launch post Aug 2025 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Aug 2025
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
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Model scored in lab cards
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Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

Command A Reasoning leads with 46.5%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Command A Reasoning 46.5%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Command A Reasoning 46.5% Aug 2025 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Command A Reasoning 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Command A Reasoning

No launch post has listed it since Aug 2025

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Cohere
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
21 Aug 2025 Command A Reasoning 46.5 m-tau-bench (6 languages, retail and airline, 10 runs)

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
1 Apr 2025 Cohere Command A technical report MTaubench pass@1 averages with no overall (Table 9): Retail 34.3, Airline 43.4 Capabilities

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