Model comparison

Command R+ vs GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 5% for Command R+ and 43.9% for GPT-5.2.
  • Command R+ is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $1.75 / $14 for GPT-5.2.
  • GPT-5.2 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R+ and GPT-5.2 specifications
Command R+GPT-5.2
ProviderCohereOpenAI
Noometry Index32.454.1
Released2024-08-302025-12-11
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K400K
Max output4K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$1.75
Output $ / M tokens$10$14
Results tracked3467

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
LMArena Coding11871447
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
LMArena WebDev—1416
SWE-bench Multilingual—66.7%
GSO—27.4%
WeirdML—72.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
ALE-Bench—1,294
AlgoTune—2.05
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
Terminal-Bench—64.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.9%
GDPval—49.7%
Remote Labor Index—2.5%
τ²-bench Airline—83%
τ²-bench Banking—32.2%
τ²-bench Retail—81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom—89.7%
DeepResearch Bench—41.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—75.3%
Vending-Bench 2—3,591

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
SimpleBench17.4%45.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts11861445
DTBench54.9%90.9%
LMCA5%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34153.45
ARC-AGI-2—52.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.6%
ARC-AGI-1—86.2%
Chess Puzzles—49%
EnigmaEval—10.4%
EBR-Bench—23%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
ForecastBench—60.1
LiveBench31.8%—

Math GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%8.4%
LMArena Expert11741445
GPQA Diamond—91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—27.8%
SimpleQA Verified—37.1%
MMLU69.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R+: —, GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
LMArena Vision—1268
VPCT—84%
Furniture Assembly—38.3%
LMArena Document—1405

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English12161425
LMArena Chinese12261460
LMArena French12091455
LMArena German12161448
LMArena Japanese11661420
LMArena Korean11381392
LMArena Russian12271440
LMArena Spanish11891433

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following11971417
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
LMArena Longer Query12301428
CL-bench—18.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+GPT-5.2
LMArena Text12291439
LMArena Creative Writing12351401
LMArena Multi-Turn12131458
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1703
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or GPT-5.2?

Command R+ is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; GPT-5.2 lists at $1.75 and $14.

Is Command R+ or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.2 does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and GPT-5.2 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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