Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #43 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 41.7 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 17.4% for Command R+ and 63% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
  • Qwen3.6 Max Preview is cheaper at $1.30 / $7.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.451.5
Released2024-08-302026-04-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K262K
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$1.30
Output $ / M tokens$10$7.80
Results tracked3429

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding11871471
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
SimpleBench17.4%63%
LMArena Hard Prompts11861457
DTBench54.9%87.2%
LMCA5%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34149.24
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Math11881465
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.1%
LiveBench Math21.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Expert11741478
GPQA Diamond—87.4%
SimpleQA Verified—52%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English12161437
LMArena Chinese12261487
LMArena French12091449
LMArena Russian12271445
LMArena Spanish11891454
LMArena German1216—
LMArena Japanese1166—
LMArena Korean1138—

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following11971438
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query12301457

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

BenchmarkCommand R+Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text12291447
LMArena Creative Writing12351435
LMArena Multi-Turn12131456
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is cheaper. It lists at $1.30 per million input tokens and $7.80 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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