Model comparison

Amazon Nova Pro vs Command R+

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Command R+ in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 20.0 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 38.1% for Amazon Nova Pro and 19.1% for Command R+.
  • Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • 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 Index31.032.4
Released2024-12-032024-08-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K128K
Max output10K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$10
Results tracked3834

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Command R+: 29.1 (#309)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
LiveBench Coding38.1%19.1%
LMArena Coding12701187
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—41.9%
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—63.5%

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+: 9.2 (#344)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%24.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461186
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%38.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8119.34
LiveBench43.5%31.8%
SimpleBench—17.4%
DTBench—54.9%
LMCA—5%

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Command R+: 28.9 (#242)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
LiveBench Math38%21.3%
LMArena Math12521188
Omni-MATH24.2%—

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Command R+: 36.4 (#169)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%6.9%
LMArena Expert12111174
MMLU82%69.4%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
MMLU-Pro67.3%—
Confabulations30.1%—
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+: 38.6 (#227)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
LMArena Non-English12341216
LMArena Chinese12441226
LMArena French12711209
LMArena German12431216
LMArena Japanese12001166
LMArena Korean12031138
LMArena Russian12401227
LMArena Spanish11821189

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Command R+: 60.0 (#254)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%57.6%
LMArena Instruction Following12351197
IFEval81.5%—

Long Context Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Command R+: 37.3 (#219)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
LMArena Longer Query12551230

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Command R+: 43.5 (#228)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProCommand R+
LMArena Text12591229
LMArena Creative Writing12121235
LMArena Multi-Turn12461213
LiveBench Language37%29.7%
Short-Story Creative Writing60.5%—
WildBench77.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Command R+?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Command R+?

Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Amazon Nova Pro or Command R+ better for coding?

Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 29.1 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?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Command R+ has 34.

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