Model comparison

Command R+ vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

Command R+

Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.5 to 43.5.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command R+ and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
Provider	Cohere	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	32.4	40.2
Released	2024-08-30	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	128K	262K
Max output	4K	210K
Input $ / M tokens	$2.50	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$7.50
Results tracked	34	22

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding	1187	1461
LMArena WebDev	—	1264
BigCodeBench Instruct	33.8%	—
LiveBench Coding	19.1%	—
BigCodeBench Complete	41.9%	—
HumanEval+	56.7%	—
MBPP+	63.5%	—

Reasoning Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Hard Prompts	1186	1436
Epoch Capabilities Index	119.34	141.35
SimpleBench	17.4%	—
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)	—	12.9%
LiveBench Reasoning	24.8%	—
DTBench	54.9%	—
LiveBench Data Analysis	38.1%	—
LMCA	5%	—
LiveBench	31.8%	—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math	1188	1431
LiveBench Math	21.3%	—

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert	1174	1432
Vectara Hallucination Rate	6.9%	—
MMLU	69.4%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R+: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision	—	1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English	1216	1404
LMArena Chinese	1226	1442
LMArena French	1209	1448
LMArena German	1216	1451
LMArena Korean	1138	1385
LMArena Russian	1227	1395
LMArena Spanish	1189	1409
LMArena Japanese	1166	—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1197	1415
LiveBench Instruction Following	57.6%	—

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query	1230	1415

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R+	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text	1229	1421
LMArena Creative Writing	1235	1374
LMArena Multi-Turn	1213	1423
EQ-Bench 4	—	993
LiveBench Language	29.7%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.