Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.0

Rank #251 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.0 to 8.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 5% for Command R+ and 36.4% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R+Qwen3.5 Plus
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.042.3
Released2024-08-302026-02-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$10$2.40
Results tracked3415

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command R+: 28.6 (#304), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
LMArena Coding1187—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
ALE-Bench—621.92
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Command R+: 8.9 (#341), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
DTBench54.9%80.5%
LMCA5%36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.28146.79
SimpleBench17.4%—
Chess Puzzles—22%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1186—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Command R+: 26.6 (#239), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LiveBench Math21.3%—
LMArena Math1188—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Command R+: 35.9 (#165), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%10.7%
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
LMArena Expert1174—
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R+: 38.8 (#222), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
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), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1197—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#214), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1231—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Command R+: 43.7 (#223), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1229—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1213—
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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