Model comparison

Command R+ vs Mistral Nemo

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.0 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.0

Rank #251 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

25.9

Rank #332 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Nemo in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R+ leads 35.9 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 54.9% for Command R+ and 48.6% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.

Side by side

Command R+ and Mistral Nemo specifications
Command R+Mistral Nemo
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index32.025.9
Released2024-08-302024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output4K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.15
Results tracked3410

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command R+: 28.6 (#304), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
LMArena Coding1187—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.3 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Command R+: 8.9 (#341), Mistral Nemo: 19.9 (#230)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
DTBench54.9%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.28118.63
SimpleBench17.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1186—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LMCA5%—
LiveBench31.8%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Command R+ leads

Command R+: 26.6 (#239), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#263)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
LiveBench Math21.3%—
LMArena Math1188—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Command R+: 35.9 (#165), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond—29.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
LMArena Expert1174—
BoolQ—82.5%
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R+: 38.8 (#222), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1216—
LMArena Chinese1226—
LMArena French1208—
LMArena German1216—
LMArena Japanese1166—
LMArena Korean1138—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1189—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command R+: 60.2 (#249), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1197—

Long Context Not comparable

Command R+: 37.3 (#214), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1231—

Writing & Preference Command R+ leads

Command R+: 43.7 (#223), Mistral Nemo: 28.6 (#291)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Nemo
LMArena Text1229—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1213—
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Mistral Nemo?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.0 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 29× 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 Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Mistral Nemo share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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