Noometry

Model comparison

Command R vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.0

Rank #267 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 55.9 to 38.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 69.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Command R.
  • Command R accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 41K.

Side by side

Command RQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.038.5
Released2024-08-302025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K41K
Max output4K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.12
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.50
Results tracked2932

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Command R: 28.8 (#301), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding11701416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%—
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Command R: 13.3 (#329), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11641398
DTBench46.4%69.3%
LMCA9.2%22.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63
LiveBench27.5%—

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Command R: 25.8 (#244), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math11551394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%
LiveBench Math19.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Command R: 30.5 (#219), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert11381395
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%
MMLU65.2%—

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Command R: 35.9 (#240), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English11741372
LMArena Chinese11821434
LMArena French11611419
LMArena German11761379
LMArena Japanese11431338
LMArena Korean11621333
LMArena Russian11741369
LMArena Spanish11501403

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Command R: 58.3 (#256), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11671364
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Command R leads

Command R: 36.3 (#226), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query11981379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Command R: 38.4 (#248), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

BenchmarkCommand RQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text11871384
LMArena Creative Writing11701318
LMArena Multi-Turn11631378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Command R lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Is Command R or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command R does, with 128K tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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