Model comparison

Command R+ vs Llama 2-13B

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 2-13B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Command R+ leads 43.5 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 54.9% for Command R+ and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.

Side by side

Command R+ and Llama 2-13B specifications
Command R+Llama 2-13B
ProviderCohereMeta
Noometry Index32.429.6
Released2024-08-302023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked3432

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-13B leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding11871062
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Reasoning Llama 2-13B leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Hard Prompts11861051
DTBench54.9%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34106.17
SimpleBench17.4%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LMCA5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
LiveBench31.8%—
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math11881065
LiveBench Math21.3%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert11741030
MMLU69.4%55.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R+: —, Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Command R+ leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English12161024
LMArena Chinese12261001
LMArena French12091044
LMArena German12161009
LMArena Japanese1166894
LMArena Korean1138953
LMArena Russian12271055
LMArena Spanish11891087

Instruction Following Command R+ leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following11971045
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Command R+ leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query12301064

Writing & Preference Command R+ leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text12291084
LMArena Creative Writing12351047
LMArena Multi-Turn12131050
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Llama 2-13B?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R+ or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.9 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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