Noometry

Model comparison

Command R vs Ministral 8B

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 8B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R leads 31.0 to 12.6.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Command R.
  • Ministral 8B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command RMinistral 8B
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index31.428.2
Released2024-08-302024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K262K
Max output4K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.15
Results tracked2917

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Category by category

Coding Ministral 8B leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding11691202
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%

Reasoning Ministral 8B leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts11641191
DTBench46.4%45.7%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LMCA9.2%—
LiveBench27.5%—

Math Command R leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Math11551188
LiveBench Math19.4%—
MATH Level 5—14.9%

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Expert11381170
GPQA Diamond—27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
MMLU65.2%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English11741165
LMArena Chinese11821193
LMArena Russian11741195
LMArena French1162—
LMArena German1176—
LMArena Japanese1143—
LMArena Korean1163—
LMArena Spanish1151—

Instruction Following Ministral 8B leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following11671161
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Too close to call

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query11981212

Writing & Preference Ministral 8B leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkCommand RMinistral 8B
LMArena Text11871191
LMArena Creative Writing11701175
LMArena Multi-Turn11631166
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Ministral 8B?

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Command R lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Is Command R or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Ministral 8B does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Ministral 8B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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