Model comparison

Amazon Nova Pro vs Command R

Amazon Nova Pro and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Command R in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 64.9 to 58.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 38.1% for Amazon Nova Pro and 17.9% for Command R.
  • Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
  • Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Pro and Command R specifications
Amazon Nova ProCommand R
ProviderAmazonCohere
Noometry Index31.031.4
Released2024-12-032024-08-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K128K
Max output10K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$0.60
Results tracked3829

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Command R: 29.3 (#306)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LiveBench Coding38.1%17.9%
LMArena Coding12701169
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—45.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Command R: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard25%—
TheAgentCompany1.7%—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Command R: 13.8 (#331)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%21.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461164
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%33.3%
LiveBench43.5%27.5%
DTBench—46.4%
LMCA—9.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8—

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Command R: 28.0 (#246)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LiveBench Math38%19.4%
LMArena Math12521155
Omni-MATH24.2%—

Knowledge Command R leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Command R: 31.0 (#221)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LMArena Expert12111138
MMLU82%65.2%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
MMLU-Pro67.3%—
Confabulations30.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
GPQA (HELM)44.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Command R: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LMArena Vision980—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Command R: 35.7 (#245)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LMArena Non-English12341174
LMArena Chinese12441182
LMArena French12711162
LMArena German12431176
LMArena Japanese12001143
LMArena Korean12031163
LMArena Russian12401174
LMArena Spanish11821151

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Command R: 58.1 (#261)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%55.6%
LMArena Instruction Following12351167
IFEval81.5%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Command R: 36.3 (#231)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LMArena Longer Query12551198

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Command R: 38.2 (#254)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R
LMArena Text12591187
LMArena Creative Writing12121170
LMArena Multi-Turn12461163
LiveBench Language37%16.7%
Short-Story Creative Writing60.5%—
WildBench77.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Command R?

Amazon Nova Pro and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Command R?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

Is Amazon Nova Pro or Command R better for coding?

Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Command R share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.

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