Model comparison
Command R+ vs Devstral Small 2505
Devstral Small 2505 is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Devstral Small 2505 leads 19.7 to 9.2.
- Devstral Small 2505 is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
Side by side
| Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2024-08-30 | 2025-05-07 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 4K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Devstral Small 2505 leads
Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Devstral Small 2505: 38.9 (#166)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 56.4% |
| SciCode | — | 28.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |
Reasoning Devstral Small 2505 leads
Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Devstral Small 2505: 19.7 (#252)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | — |
| DTBench | 54.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.34 | — |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |
Math Not comparable
Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | — |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | — |
| LMArena French | 1209 | — |
| LMArena German | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1230 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command R+ better than Devstral Small 2505?
Devstral Small 2505 is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Devstral Small 2505?
Devstral Small 2505 is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command R+ or Devstral Small 2505 better for coding?
Devstral Small 2505 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Devstral Small 2505 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Devstral Small 2505 has 4.