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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Command R

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 6 categories and Command R in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command R leads 28.0 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 50.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 16.7% for Command R.
  • Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusCommand R
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index29.531.4
Released2024-02-292024-08-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked4629

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Command R: 29.3 (#306)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%37.1%
LiveBench Coding38.6%17.9%
LMArena Coding12641169
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%45.2%
WeirdML19.2%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Command R: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Command R: 13.8 (#331)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%21.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451164
DTBench61.6%46.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%33.3%
LMCA17%9.2%
LiveBench49.2%27.5%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Command R leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Command R: 28.0 (#246)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LiveBench Math43.6%19.4%
LMArena Math12731155
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Command R leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Command R: 31.0 (#221)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LMArena Expert12231138
MMLU84.6%65.2%
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Command R: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Command R: 35.7 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LMArena Non-English12581174
LMArena Chinese12481182
LMArena French12751162
LMArena German12581176
LMArena Japanese12041143
LMArena Korean11871163
LMArena Russian12801174
LMArena Spanish12461151

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Command R: 58.1 (#261)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%55.6%
LMArena Instruction Following12481167

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Command R: 36.3 (#231)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LMArena Longer Query12591198

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Command R: 38.2 (#254)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R
LMArena Text12621187
LMArena Creative Writing12351170
LMArena Multi-Turn12751163
LiveBench Language50.4%16.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Command R?

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Command R better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Command R share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.

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