Noometry

Model comparison

Command R vs Mistral 7B

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R leads 31.0 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 45.2% for Command R and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens.
  • Command R accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Command RMistral 7B
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index31.423.0
Released2024-08-302023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K8K
Max output4K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.25
Results tracked2937

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Category by category

Coding Command R leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%19.5%
LMArena Coding11691082
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%27.3%
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Reasoning Too close to call

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11641067
DTBench46.4%42.5%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LMCA9.2%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—112.21
HellaSwag—81%
LiveBench27.5%—
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Command R leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
LMArena Math11551085
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.3%
LiveBench Math19.4%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
LMArena Expert11381036
MMLU65.2%62.5%
GPQA Diamond—15.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Command R leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English11741012
LMArena Chinese11821009
LMArena French11621037
LMArena German1176987
LMArena Japanese1143878
LMArena Russian11741018
LMArena Spanish11511026
LMArena Korean1163—

Instruction Following Command R leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following11671060
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Command R leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query11981060

Writing & Preference Command R leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral 7B
LMArena Text11871090
LMArena Creative Writing11701068
LMArena Multi-Turn11631062
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Mistral 7B?

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Command R lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Is Command R or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Command R scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command R does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Mistral 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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