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Model comparison

Command R vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Flash Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 13.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 89.1% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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 Flash Preview
ProviderCohereGoogle
Noometry Index31.452.3
Released2024-08-302025-12-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$3
Results tracked2959

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Coding11691460
SWE-bench Verified—75.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1439
SWE-bench Multilingual—72.7%
GSO—9.8%
WeirdML—61.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—
ALE-Bench—1,367

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
Terminal-Bench—64.3%
τ²-bench Airline—82.5%
τ²-bench Banking—27.3%
τ²-bench Retail—76.8%
τ²-bench Telecom—91.2%
DeepResearch Bench—49.8%
BALROG—48.1%
GDP.pdf—10%
LMArena Search—1198
Vending-Bench 2—3,635

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts11641465
DTBench46.4%89.1%
LMCA9.2%43.1%
ARC-AGI-2—33.6%
SimpleBench—61.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.1%
ARC-AGI-1—84.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.8
ForecastBench—58.5
LiveBench27.5%—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Math11551473
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—51.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—95.6%
ProofBench—15%
LiveBench Math19.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—35.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Expert11381462
GPQA Diamond—89.4%
SimpleQA Verified—66.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.5%
MMLU65.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Vision—1285
GeoBench—88%
VPCT—72.6%
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document—1413

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Non-English11741458
LMArena Chinese11821511
LMArena French11621477
LMArena German11761497
LMArena Japanese11431489
LMArena Korean11631443
LMArena Russian11741480
LMArena Spanish11511469

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Instruction Following11671437
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Longer Query11981452

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45)

BenchmarkCommand RGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Text11871466
LMArena Creative Writing11701457
LMArena Multi-Turn11631471
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Command R or Gemini 3 Flash Preview better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Gemini 3 Flash Preview share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59.

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