Model comparison

Command R vs Llama 3-70B

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3-70B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command R leads 28.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 45.2% for Command R and 54.5% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Command R and Llama 3-70B specifications
Command RLlama 3-70B
ProviderCohereMeta
Noometry Index31.428.8
Released2024-08-302024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked2931

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%43.6%
LMArena Coding11691206
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%54.5%
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts11641195
DTBench46.4%54.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LMCA9.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench27.5%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Command R leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Math11551218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
LiveBench Math19.4%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert11381149
MMLU65.2%79.3%
GPQA Diamond—40.6%

Multilingual Command R leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English11741142
LMArena Chinese11821114
LMArena French11621232
LMArena German11761169
LMArena Japanese11431017
LMArena Korean11631017
LMArena Russian11741159
LMArena Spanish11511241

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following11671194
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Too close to call

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query11981174

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text11871221
LMArena Creative Writing11701210
LMArena Multi-Turn11631223
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Llama 3-70B?

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Llama 3-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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