Noometry

Model comparison

Command R vs Qwen Plus

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.0

Rank #267 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

36.7

Rank #204 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen Plus in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 27.6 to 13.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 81.1% for Qwen Plus.
  • Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.20 for Qwen Plus.
  • Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command RQwen Plus
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.036.7
Released2024-08-302024-01-25
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output4K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$1.20
Results tracked2920

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Category by category

Coding Qwen Plus leads

Command R: 28.8 (#301), Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Coding11701328
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

Command R: 13.3 (#329), Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts11641317
DTBench46.4%81.1%
LMCA9.2%24%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.3%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LiveBench27.5%—

Math Command R leads

Command R: 25.8 (#244), Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Math11551326
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—17.8%
LiveBench Math19.4%—
MATH Level 5—65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 30.5 (#219), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Expert11381328
GPQA Diamond—48.1%
MMLU65.2%—

Multilingual Qwen Plus leads

Command R: 35.9 (#240), Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English11741310
LMArena Chinese11821347
LMArena Japanese11431251
LMArena Russian11741323
LMArena French1161—
LMArena German1176—
LMArena Korean1162—
LMArena Spanish1150—

Instruction Following Qwen Plus leads

Command R: 58.3 (#256), Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following11671303
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Qwen Plus leads

Command R: 36.3 (#226), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query11981325

Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads

Command R: 38.4 (#248), Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen Plus
LMArena Text11871326
LMArena Creative Writing11701293
LMArena Multi-Turn11631336
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Qwen Plus?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Qwen Plus lists at $0.40 and $1.20.

Is Command R or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Qwen Plus share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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