Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Inkling

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #80 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling leads 40.4 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 17.4% for Command R+ and 50% for Inkling.
  • Inkling is cheaper at $1.87 / $4.68 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Command R+ accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 66K.

Side by side

Command R+Inkling
ProviderCohereThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index32.444.1
Released2024-08-302026-07-15
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K66K
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$1.87
Output $ / M tokens$10$4.68
Results tracked3441

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Category by category

Coding Inkling leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Inkling: 34.5 (#234)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
LMArena Coding11871464
FrontierCode—14%
LMArena WebDev—1413
FrontierSWE—4.1%
SciCode—47%
WeirdML—32.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
ALE-Bench—946
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Inkling: 29.6 (#85)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
APEX-Agents—33.8%
τ²-bench Banking—25%

Reasoning Inkling leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Inkling: 40.4 (#56)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
SimpleBench17.4%50%
LMArena Hard Prompts11861451
DTBench54.9%87.5%
LMCA5%37.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34148.54
ARC-AGI-2—36.5%
ARC-AGI-1—79.5%
CritPt—5.4%
Chess Puzzles—21%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Inkling leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Inkling: 31.3 (#225)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
LMArena Math11881479
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
ProofBench—0%
LiveBench Math21.3%—

Knowledge Inkling leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Inkling: 55.1 (#49)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
LMArena Expert11741465
GPQA Diamond—88.3%
SimpleQA Verified—40.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Inkling leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Inkling: 54.0 (#52)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
LMArena Non-English12161434
LMArena Chinese12261490
LMArena French12091458
LMArena German12161446
LMArena Japanese11661429
LMArena Korean11381404
LMArena Russian12271429
LMArena Spanish11891448

Instruction Following Inkling leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Inkling: 75.1 (#71)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
LMArena Instruction Following11971426
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Inkling leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Inkling: 43.8 (#86)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
LMArena Longer Query12301434

Writing & Preference Inkling leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Inkling: 65.2 (#51)

BenchmarkCommand R+Inkling
LMArena Text12291441
LMArena Creative Writing12351387
LMArena Multi-Turn12131436
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1611
EQ-Bench 4—1226
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Inkling?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Inkling?

Inkling is cheaper. It lists at $1.87 per million input tokens and $4.68 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Inkling better for coding?

Inkling scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command R+ does, with 128K tokens against 66K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Inkling share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.

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