Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.2 to 43.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 5% for Command R+ and 37.6% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Gemini 3.5 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 3.5 Flash Lite
ProviderCohereGoogle
Noometry Index32.441.5
Released2024-08-302026-07-21
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$10$2.50
Results tracked3439

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Coding11871453
LMArena WebDev—1440
SciCode—41.3%
WeirdML—39%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
ALE-Bench—765.27
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
APEX-Agents—29.3%
GDP.pdf—10%

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts11861441
DTBench54.9%83.5%
LMCA5%37.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34145.13
ARC-AGI-2—10.3%
SimpleBench17.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—60.4%
ARC-AGI-1—53.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—22%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Command R+ leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Math11881433
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—26%
FrontierMath Tier 4—0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—71.1%
ProofBench—13%
LiveBench Math21.3%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Expert11741435
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
MMLU69.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R+: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Vision—1268

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Non-English12161427
LMArena Chinese12261469
LMArena French12091451
LMArena German12161454
LMArena Japanese11661427
LMArena Korean11381407
LMArena Russian12271443
LMArena Spanish11891442

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Instruction Following11971420
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Longer Query12301435

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57)

BenchmarkCommand R+Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text12291435
LMArena Creative Writing12351420
LMArena Multi-Turn12131445
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1559
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39.

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