Model comparison

Command R vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 2 shared benchmarks.

Command R

Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B

Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 8B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.9 to 28.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 46.4% for Command R and 59.7% for Qwen3 8B.
Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
Qwen3 8B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command R and Qwen3 8B specifications
	Command R	Qwen3 8B
Provider	Cohere	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	31.4	33.7
Released	2024-08-30	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	128K	131K
Max output	4K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.15	$0.18
Output $ / M tokens	$0.60	$0.70
Results tracked	29	11

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 8B leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
SciCode	—	22.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct	37.1%	—
LiveBench Coding	17.9%	—
LMArena Coding	1169	—
BigCodeBench Complete	45.2%	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	42.6%

Reasoning Qwen3 8B leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
DTBench	46.4%	59.7%
LMCA	9.2%	8.8%
CritPt	—	0%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
LiveBench Reasoning	21.9%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1164	—
LiveBench Data Analysis	33.3%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	136.17
LiveBench	27.5%	—

Math Qwen3 8B leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	56.1%
LiveBench Math	19.4%	—
LMArena Math	1155	—

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond	—	56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	4.8%
LMArena Expert	1138	—
MMLU	65.2%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Qwen3 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
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), Qwen3 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
LiveBench Instruction Following	55.6%	—
LMArena Instruction Following	1167	—

Long Context Qwen3 8B leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	62.1%
LMArena Longer Query	1198	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Qwen3 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command R	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Text	1187	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1170	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1163	—
LiveBench Language	16.7%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Qwen3 8B?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.

Is Command R or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 8B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Qwen3 8B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.