Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Grok 3

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 3 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok 3 leads 75.0 to 60.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 17.4% for Command R+ and 36.1% for Grok 3.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R+Grok 3
ProviderCoherexAI
Noometry Index32.439.9
Released2024-08-302025-04-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked3440

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
LMArena Coding11871432
Aider Polyglot—53.3%
WeirdML—37.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
BALROG—29.5%

Reasoning Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
SimpleBench17.4%36.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts11861434
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34138.33
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—61.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
DTBench54.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LMCA5%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
LMArena Math11881391
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—55.6%
Omni-MATH—46.4%
LiveBench Math21.3%—
MATH Level 5—88.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%5.8%
LMArena Expert11741421
GPQA Diamond—75.8%
MMLU-Pro—78.8%
Confabulations—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
LMArena Non-English12161410
LMArena Chinese12261448
LMArena French12091460
LMArena German12161431
LMArena Japanese11661387
LMArena Korean11381373
LMArena Russian12271416
LMArena Spanish11891417

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
LMArena Instruction Following11971409
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—
IFEval—88.4%

Long Context Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
LMArena Longer Query12301439
Fiction.LiveBench—58.3%

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 3
LMArena Text12291426
LMArena Creative Writing12351414
LMArena Multi-Turn12131425
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1186
WildBench—84.9%
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Grok 3?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R+ or Grok 3 better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Grok 3 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.

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