Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Command R
Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#272); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Command R in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 13.8.
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Command R | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-08-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Command R: 29.3 (#306)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 17.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1169 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 45.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Command R: 13.8 (#331)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 46.4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 21.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1164 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 33.3% |
| LMCA | — | 9.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 27.5% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Command R: 28.0 (#246)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1155 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Command R: 31.0 (#221)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 65.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1138 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Command R: 35.7 (#245)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1182 |
| LMArena French | — | 1162 |
| LMArena German | — | 1176 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1143 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1163 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Command R: 58.1 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1167 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Command R: 36.3 (#231)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1198 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Command R: 38.2 (#254)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1187 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1170 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1163 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 16.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Command R?
Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#272); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Command R share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.