Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 24.6 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 54.9% for Command R+ and 80% for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is cheaper at $0.25 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.442.0
Released2024-08-302026-02-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K262K
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$10$2
Results tracked3428

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Coding11871410
LMArena WebDev—1254
SciCode—29.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11861400
DTBench54.9%80%
LMCA5%29.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34142.52
SimpleBench17.4%—
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Math11881404
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70%
LiveBench Math21.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%10.5%
LMArena Expert11741408
GPQA Diamond—83.5%
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12161378
LMArena Chinese12261457
LMArena French12091412
LMArena German12161367
LMArena Japanese11661325
LMArena Korean11381356
LMArena Russian12271376
LMArena Spanish11891392

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11971379
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query12301389

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text12291395
LMArena Creative Writing12351346
LMArena Multi-Turn12131390
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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