Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 43.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 5% for Command R+ and 18.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
ProviderCohereGoogle
Noometry Index32.437.0
Released2024-08-302025-06-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.40
Results tracked3433

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Coding11871373
WeirdML—35.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
ALE-Bench—325.9
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—36.9%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts11861377
DTBench54.9%62.8%
LMCA5%18.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34133.94
SimpleBench17.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Math11881373
Omni-MATH—48%
LiveBench Math21.3%—

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%3.3%
LMArena Expert11741373
MMLU-Pro—53.7%
GPQA (HELM)—30.9%
MMLU69.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R+: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Vision—1198
VPCT—30%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Non-English12161369
LMArena Chinese12261404
LMArena French12091388
LMArena German12161389
LMArena Japanese11661359
LMArena Korean11381360
LMArena Russian12271373
LMArena Spanish11891396

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Instruction Following11971367
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—
IFEval—81%

Long Context Command R+ leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Longer Query12301373
Fiction.LiveBench—47.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Text12291379
LMArena Creative Writing12351367
LMArena Multi-Turn12131366
WildBench—81.8%
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.

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