Model comparison

Command R vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 16 shared benchmarks.

Command R

Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.5 to 38.2.
Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command R and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
Provider	Cohere	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	31.4	40.2
Released	2024-08-30	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	128K	262K
Max output	4K	210K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.15	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$0.60	$7.50
Results tracked	29	22

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding	1169	1461
LMArena WebDev	—	1264
BigCodeBench Instruct	37.1%	—
LiveBench Coding	17.9%	—
BigCodeBench Complete	45.2%	—

Reasoning Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Hard Prompts	1164	1436
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)	—	12.9%
LiveBench Reasoning	21.9%	—
DTBench	46.4%	—
LiveBench Data Analysis	33.3%	—
LMCA	9.2%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	141.35
LiveBench	27.5%	—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math	1155	1431
LiveBench Math	19.4%	—

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert	1138	1432
MMLU	65.2%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision	—	1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English	1174	1404
LMArena Chinese	1182	1442
LMArena French	1162	1448
LMArena German	1176	1451
LMArena Korean	1163	1385
LMArena Russian	1174	1395
LMArena Spanish	1151	1409
LMArena Japanese	1143	—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1167	1415
LiveBench Instruction Following	55.6%	—

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query	1198	1415

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text	1187	1421
LMArena Creative Writing	1170	1374
LMArena Multi-Turn	1163	1423
EQ-Bench 4	—	993
LiveBench Language	16.7%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Which is cheaper, Command R or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Command R or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.