Noometry

Model comparison

Command R vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 38.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 76.8% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
  • Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $1.50 for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.1 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 3.1 Flash Lite
ProviderCohereGoogle
Noometry Index31.440.8
Released2024-08-302026-03-03
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$1.50
Results tracked2938

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Coding11691400
LMArena WebDev—1256
SciCode—41.9%
WeirdML—52.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—
ALE-Bench—797.73

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
DeepResearch Bench—37.3%

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts11641407
DTBench46.4%76.8%
LMCA9.2%35%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—8.2%
CritPt—1.1%
Chess Puzzles—25%
EnigmaEval—3%
Thematic Generalization—63.3%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—144.47
ForecastBench—54.4
LiveBench27.5%—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Math11551428
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—27.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—80%
LiveBench Math19.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Expert11381398
GPQA Diamond—81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
MMLU65.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Vision—1240

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Non-English11741411
LMArena Chinese11821461
LMArena French11621424
LMArena German11761429
LMArena Japanese11431413
LMArena Korean11631392
LMArena Russian11741420
LMArena Spanish11511421

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Instruction Following11671377
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Longer Query11981394

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Text11871416
LMArena Creative Writing11701401
LMArena Multi-Turn11631417
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Is Command R or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38.

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