Model comparison

Command R vs Llama 2-70B

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-70B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R leads 31.0 to 7.4.

Side by side

Command R and Llama 2-70B specifications
Command RLlama 2-70B
ProviderCohereMeta
Noometry Index31.424.4
Released2024-08-302023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked2935

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding11691079
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts11641073
DTBench46.4%41.6%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LMCA9.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.79
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
LiveBench27.5%—
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Command R leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Math11551091
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0%
LiveBench Math19.4%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Expert11381039
MMLU65.2%69.9%
GPQA Diamond—26.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multilingual Command R leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English11741045
LMArena Chinese1182995
LMArena French11621090
LMArena German11761041
LMArena Japanese1143927
LMArena Korean1163964
LMArena Russian11741083
LMArena Spanish11511143

Instruction Following Command R leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following11671071
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Command R leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query11981062

Writing & Preference Command R leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text11871115
LMArena Creative Writing11701075
LMArena Multi-Turn11631088
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Llama 2-70B?

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.4 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Llama 2-70B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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