Model comparison

Command R vs GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 21× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 leads 61.8 to 13.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 94.4% for GPT-5.4.
  • Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command R and GPT-5.4 specifications
Command RGPT-5.4
ProviderCohereOpenAI
Noometry Index31.459.4
Released2024-08-302026-03-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$15
Results tracked2968

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Coding11691497
SWE-bench Verified—76.9%
DeepSWE—51.8%
LMArena WebDev—1465
SciCode—56.6%
GSO—31.4%
WeirdML—77.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
MirrorCode—15.6%
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—
ALE-Bench—1,607
AlgoTune—1.85

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
Terminal-Bench—81.8%
APEX-Agents—52.4%
τ²-bench Banking—39.4%
DeepResearch Bench—35.1%
PostTrainBench—19%
GBAEval—45.1%
LMArena Search—1197
METR Time Horizons—74.3%
Vending-Bench 2—6,144

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Hard Prompts11641485
DTBench46.4%94.4%
LMCA9.2%52%
ARC-AGI-2—74%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.3%
ARC-AGI-1—93.7%
CritPt—23.4%
Chess Puzzles—44%
EnigmaEval—16%
Thematic Generalization—80%
EBR-Bench—25.4%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—37%
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.81
ForecastBench—59.5
LiveBench27.5%—

Math GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Expert11381507
GPQA Diamond—93.3%
Humanity's Last Exam—36.2%
SimpleQA Verified—45.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%
MMLU65.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R: —, GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Vision—1303
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.1%
Furniture Assembly—37.5%
LMArena Document—1471

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Non-English11741465
LMArena Chinese11821519
LMArena French11621493
LMArena German11761472
LMArena Japanese11431485
LMArena Korean11631448
LMArena Russian11741480
LMArena Spanish11511454

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Instruction Following11671469
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Longer Query11981473
CL-bench—27.9%
CL-bench Life—21.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RGPT-5.4
LMArena Text11871469
LMArena Creative Writing11701439
LMArena Multi-Turn11631482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1840
EQ-Bench 4—1272
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 21× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command R or GPT-5.4?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Is Command R or GPT-5.4 better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and GPT-5.4 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 has 68.

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