Model comparison
Command R+ vs Llama 3-8B
Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
MetaSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3-8B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R+ leads 36.4 to 7.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 54.9% for Command R+ and 43.9% for Llama 3-8B.
Side by side
| Command R+ | Llama 3-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 25.5 |
| Released | 2024-08-30 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3-8B leads
Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | 31.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1152 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | 36.9% |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | 54.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3-8B leads
Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1133 |
| DTBench | 54.9% | 43.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.34 | 116.45 |
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.7% |
Math Command R+ leads
Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |
Knowledge Command R+ leads
Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 69.4% | 68.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 82.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |
Multilingual Command R+ leads
Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1076 |
| LMArena French | 1209 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1004 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1173 |
Instruction Following Command R+ leads
Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1127 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
Long Context Command R+ leads
Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1230 | 1128 |
Writing & Preference Command R+ leads
Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1152 |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command R+ better than Llama 3-8B?
Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command R+ or Llama 3-8B better for coding?
Llama 3-8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.0 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Llama 3-8B share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.