Model comparison

Command R vs Mistral Small 3.2

Command R and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Command R

Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.0 to 38.2.
Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Command R.
Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command R and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
Provider	Cohere	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	31.4	31.2
Released	2024-08-30	2025-06-20
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	128K	256K
Max output	4K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.15	$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens	$0.60	$0.25
Results tracked	29	6

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
BigCodeBench Instruct	37.1%	—
LiveBench Coding	17.9%	—
LMArena Coding	1169	—
BigCodeBench Complete	45.2%	—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	40.4%
Chess Puzzles	—	1%
LiveBench Reasoning	21.9%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1164	—
DTBench	46.4%	—
LiveBench Data Analysis	33.3%	—
LMCA	9.2%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	131.74
LiveBench	27.5%	—

Math Command R leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	30.3%
LiveBench Math	19.4%	—
LMArena Math	1155	—

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond	—	49.1%
LMArena Expert	1138	—
MMLU	65.2%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English	1174	—
LMArena Chinese	1182	—
LMArena French	1162	—
LMArena German	1176	—
LMArena Japanese	1143	—
LMArena Korean	1163	—
LMArena Russian	1174	—
LMArena Spanish	1151	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Instruction Following	55.6%	—
LMArena Instruction Following	1167	—

Long Context Not comparable

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query	1198	—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text	1187	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1170	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	1255
LMArena Multi-Turn	1163	—
LiveBench Language	16.7%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Command R and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Command R lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.