Model comparison

Command R vs Phi-3.5-mini

Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.0

Rank #267 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.0 to 28.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 45.2% for Command R and 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini.

Side by side

Command R and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Command RPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderCohereMicrosoft
Noometry Index31.036.4
Released2024-08-302024-08-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked295

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Command R: 28.8 (#301), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%32.8%
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%38.5%
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
LMArena Coding1170—

Reasoning Not comparable

Command R: 13.3 (#329), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1164—
DTBench46.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LMCA9.2%—
LiveBench27.5%—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

Command R: 25.8 (#244), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Math19.4%—
LMArena Math1155—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Command R: 30.5 (#219), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Expert1138—
BoolQ—78%
MMLU65.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R: 35.9 (#240), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1174—
LMArena Chinese1182—
LMArena French1161—
LMArena German1176—
LMArena Japanese1143—
LMArena Korean1162—
LMArena Russian1174—
LMArena Spanish1150—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command R: 58.3 (#256), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1167—

Long Context Not comparable

Command R: 36.3 (#226), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1198—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Command R: 38.4 (#248), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1187—
LMArena Creative Writing1170—
LMArena Multi-Turn1163—
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Command R or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Phi-3.5-mini share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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