Model comparison
Command R7B vs Gemini 3.6 Flash
Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Command R7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 32.3 to 26.1.
- Command R7B is cheaper at $0.0375 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
- Command R7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 32.5 | 54.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-02 | 2026-07-21 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 4K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.0375 | $0.75 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $3.75 |
| Results tracked | 1 | 46 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 46.7% |
| FrontierCode | — | 34.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1538 |
| SciCode | — | 52.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1491 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 715.52 |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads
Command R7B: 26.1, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 46.9% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 32.1% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 14% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 60.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 89% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 91.2% |
| CritPt | — | 10.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 43% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1485 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 30% |
| DTBench | — | 95.5% |
| LMCA | — | 44.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 154.25 |
Math Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 58.9% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 22% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 70.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 94.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 36% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1505 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 94.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 66.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1488 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1298 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 31.2% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 23.3% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1456 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1469 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1531 |
| LMArena French | — | 1504 |
| LMArena German | — | 1478 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1475 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1466 |
Long Context Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1474 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27)
| Benchmark | Command R7B | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1479 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1465 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1604 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1481 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command R7B better than Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Command R7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Command R7B or Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Command R7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.0375 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Command R7B and Gemini 3.6 Flash share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R7B has 1 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46.