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Model comparison

Command R+ vs Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.6 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) xAI

48.6

Rank #54 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads 52.3 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 54.9% for Command R+ and 90.1% for Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning).
  • Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is cheaper at $1.25 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
ProviderCoherexAI
Noometry Index32.448.6
Released2024-08-302026-02-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output4K30K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$1.25
Output $ / M tokens$10$2.50
Results tracked3446

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 42.1 (#112)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Coding11871459
LMArena WebDev—1375
WeirdML—52.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
ALE-Bench—1,150
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 34.4 (#46)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
Terminal-Bench—57.3%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
LMArena Search—1189
Vending-Bench 2—4,663

Reasoning Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.3 (#32)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Hard Prompts11861451
DTBench54.9%90.1%
LMCA5%38.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34151.98
ARC-AGI-2—65.1%
SimpleBench17.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—75%
NYT Connections (extended)—85.4%
ARC-AGI-1—89.5%
Chess Puzzles—24%
Thematic Generalization—63.8%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
ForecastBench—61.4
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 48.2 (#65)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Math11881455
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—44.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—92.2%
ProofBench—14%
LiveBench Math21.3%—

Knowledge Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.8 (#60)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Expert11741439
GPQA Diamond—89.3%
SimpleQA Verified—30.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
MMLU69.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R+: —, Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 33.3 (#98)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Vision—1263
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document—1416

Multilingual Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 54.5 (#40)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Non-English12161441
LMArena Chinese12261481
LMArena French12091476
LMArena German12161465
LMArena Japanese11661449
LMArena Korean11381417
LMArena Russian12271458
LMArena Spanish11891443

Instruction Following Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 74.8 (#83)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Instruction Following11971420
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 45.5 (#34)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Longer Query12301437
CL-bench—22.2%
CL-bench Life—11.9%

Writing & Preference Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 65.7 (#44)

BenchmarkCommand R+Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Text12291451
LMArena Creative Writing12351438
LMArena Multi-Turn12131456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1574
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.6 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is cheaper. It lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) better for coding?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has 46.

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