Model comparison
Command R vs GPT-4 Turbo
Command R and GPT-4 Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Command R leads 28.0 to 9.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 61.6% for GPT-4 Turbo.
- Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command R | GPT-4 Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 30.5 |
| Released | 2024-08-30 | 2023-11-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 4K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | $30 |
| Results tracked | 29 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads
Command R: 29.3 (#306), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.1% | 48.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1169 | 1268 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 45.2% | 58.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 18% |
| LiveBench Coding | 17.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 86.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 73.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command R: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.7% |
Reasoning GPT-4 Turbo leads
Command R: 13.8 (#331), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1164 | 1251 |
| DTBench | 46.4% | 61.6% |
| LMCA | 9.2% | 9.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 25.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 21.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 33.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.25 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.4 |
| LiveBench | 27.5% | — |
Math Command R leads
Command R: 28.0 (#246), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1155 | 1272 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 19.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Command R leads
Command R: 31.0 (#221), GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1138 | 1223 |
| MMLU | 65.2% | 81.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.6% |
| Confabulations | — | 28.4% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command R: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1090 |
Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads
Command R: 35.7 (#245), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1174 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1182 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1162 | 1276 |
| LMArena German | 1176 | 1259 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1143 | 1194 |
| LMArena Korean | 1163 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1174 | 1259 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | 1260 |
Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads
Command R: 58.1 (#261), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1167 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 55.6% | — |
Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads
Command R: 36.3 (#231), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1198 | 1254 |
Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads
Command R: 38.2 (#254), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Command R | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1187 | 1272 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1170 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1163 | 1267 |
| LiveBench Language | 16.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command R better than GPT-4 Turbo?
Command R and GPT-4 Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Command R or GPT-4 Turbo?
Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.
Is Command R or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?
GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Command R and GPT-4 Turbo share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.