Model comparison

Command R vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads 24.9 to 13.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 21.9% for Command R and 67.6% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.

Side by side

Command R and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B specifications
Command RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
ProviderCohereDeepSeek
Noometry Index31.437.8
Released2024-08-302025-01-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked2913

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.8 (#202)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%35.3%
LiveBench Coding17.9%51.6%
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%49.9%
LMArena Coding1169—

Reasoning DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 24.9 (#156)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%67.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%55.9%
LiveBench27.5%54.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1164—
DTBench46.4%—
LMCA9.2%—

Math DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.0 (#176)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LiveBench Math19.4%58.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—51.4%
LMArena Math1155—
MATH Level 5—89.9%

Knowledge Too close to call

Command R: 31.0 (#221), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 30.7 (#225)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
GPQA Diamond—55.7%
LMArena Expert1138—
MMLU65.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R: 35.7 (#245), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Non-English1174—
LMArena Chinese1182—
LMArena French1162—
LMArena German1176—
LMArena Japanese1143—
LMArena Korean1163—
LMArena Russian1174—
LMArena Spanish1151—

Instruction Following DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 68.2 (#190)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%69.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1167—

Long Context Not comparable

Command R: 36.3 (#231), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Longer Query1198—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 49.0 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LiveBench Language16.7%23.8%
LMArena Text1187—
LMArena Creative Writing1170—
LMArena Multi-Turn1163—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R or DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has 13.

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