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Model comparison

Command R vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 38.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 62.8% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Command R.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
ProviderCohereGoogle
Noometry Index31.437.0
Released2024-08-302025-06-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.40
Results tracked2933

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Coding11691373
WeirdML—35.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—
ALE-Bench—325.9

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—36.9%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts11641377
DTBench46.4%62.8%
LMCA9.2%18.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—133.94
LiveBench27.5%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Math11551373
Omni-MATH—48%
LiveBench Math19.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Expert11381373
MMLU-Pro—53.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.3%
GPQA (HELM)—30.9%
MMLU65.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Vision—1198
VPCT—30%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Non-English11741369
LMArena Chinese11821404
LMArena French11621388
LMArena German11761389
LMArena Japanese11431359
LMArena Korean11631360
LMArena Russian11741373
LMArena Spanish11511396

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Instruction Following11671367
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—
IFEval—81%

Long Context Command R leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Longer Query11981373
Fiction.LiveBench—47.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Text11871379
LMArena Creative Writing11701367
LMArena Multi-Turn11631366
WildBench—81.8%
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Command R lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Is Command R or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.

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