Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 73.7 to 60.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 5% for Command R+ and 21.1% for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R+GPT-4.1 mini
ProviderCohereOpenAI
Noometry Index32.433.6
Released2024-08-302025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K33K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.60
Results tracked3447

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 mini leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%48.9%
LMArena Coding11871367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
CadEval—16%
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning GPT-4.1 mini leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Hard Prompts11861349
DTBench54.9%68.8%
LMCA5%21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34135.01
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench17.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Command R+ leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Math11881343
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
LiveBench Math21.3%—
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Expert11741338
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%
MMLU69.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R+: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English12161318
LMArena Chinese12261329
LMArena French12091358
LMArena German12161351
LMArena Japanese11661290
LMArena Korean11381298
LMArena Russian12271324
LMArena Spanish11891319

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following11971333
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context Command R+ leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query12301344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text12291340
LMArena Creative Writing12351300
LMArena Multi-Turn12131354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

GPT-4.1 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.6 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and GPT-4.1 mini share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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