Model comparison

Command R+ vs Mistral 7B

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 18× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral 7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R+ leads 36.4 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 41.9% for Command R+ and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Command R+ accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Command R+ and Mistral 7B specifications
Command R+Mistral 7B
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index32.423.0
Released2024-08-302023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K8K
Max output4K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.25
Results tracked3437

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Category by category

Coding Command R+ leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%19.5%
LMArena Coding11871082
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%27.3%
HumanEval+56.7%36%
MBPP+63.5%42.1%
LiveBench Coding19.1%—

Reasoning Mistral 7B leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11861067
DTBench54.9%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34112.21
SimpleBench17.4%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LMCA5%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
LiveBench31.8%—
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Command R+ leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
LMArena Math11881085
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.3%
LiveBench Math21.3%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
LMArena Expert11741036
MMLU69.4%62.5%
GPQA Diamond—15.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Command R+ leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English12161012
LMArena Chinese12261009
LMArena French12091037
LMArena German1216987
LMArena Japanese1166878
LMArena Russian12271018
LMArena Spanish11891026
LMArena Korean1138—

Instruction Following Command R+ leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following11971060
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Command R+ leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query12301060

Writing & Preference Command R+ leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral 7B
LMArena Text12291090
LMArena Creative Writing12351068
LMArena Multi-Turn12131062
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Mistral 7B?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 18× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Command R+ scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.1 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command R+ does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Mistral 7B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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