Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B DeepSeek

35.5

Rank #226 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads 18.2 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 21.3% for Command R+ and 59.4% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B.

Side by side

Command R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
ProviderCohereDeepSeek
Noometry Index32.435.5
Released2024-08-302025-01-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked3414

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 36.1 (#212)

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%43.9%
LiveBench Coding19.1%33.7%
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%54.9%
LMArena Coding1187—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 28.1 (#94)

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
BALROG—19.5%

Reasoning DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 18.2 (#284)

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%52.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%45.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34137.44
LiveBench31.8%45.5%
SimpleBench17.4%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1186—
DTBench54.9%—
LMCA5%—

Math DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 34.5 (#194)

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
LiveBench Math21.3%59.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—55.6%
LMArena Math1188—

Knowledge Too close to call

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 35.7 (#182)

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
GPQA Diamond—64.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
LMArena Expert1174—
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: —

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
LMArena Non-English1216—
LMArena Chinese1226—
LMArena French1209—
LMArena German1216—
LMArena Japanese1166—
LMArena Korean1138—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1189—

Instruction Following DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 61.6 (#243)

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%55.7%
LMArena Instruction Following1197—

Long Context Not comparable

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: —

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
LMArena Longer Query1230—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 49.6 (#188)

BenchmarkCommand R+DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
LiveBench Language29.7%26.8%
LMArena Text1229—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1213—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R+ or DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.1 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B has 14.

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