Model comparison

Command R7B vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Command R7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Command R7B Cohere

32.5

Unranked Sparse

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 41.8 to 26.1.
  • Command R7B is cheaper at $0.0375 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.8 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 and Gemini 3.8 Flash specifications
Command R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
ProviderCohereGoogle
Noometry Index32.561.8
Released2024-12-022026-09-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.0375$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$0.15$3.75
Results tracked150

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
DeepSWE—73.8%
FrontierCode—41.2%
CursorBench—39.6%
LMArena WebDev—1584
FrontierSWE—19.6%
SciCode—56.6%
WeirdML—84.8%
LMArena Coding—1510
ALE-Bench—1,270

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Command R7B: 26.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
APEX-Agents—64.3%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard32.1%—
Remote Labor Index—5.8%
GDP.pdf—23.4%
Vending-Bench 2—5,094

Reasoning Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
ARC-AGI-2—89.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—97.4%
ARC-AGI-1—98.5%
CritPt—18.3%
Chess Puzzles—61%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1508
Mystery Game Puzzles—47%
DTBench—95.7%
LMCA—52.9%
Surface Evolver Bench—76.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.71

Math Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—68.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4—22%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.9%
ProofBench—48%
LMArena Math—1528

Knowledge Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
GPQA Diamond—95.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—44.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
LMArena Expert—1524

Multimodal Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Vision—1314
Blueprint-Bench 2—38.6%
Furniture Assembly—31.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Non-English—1491
LMArena Chinese—1554
LMArena French—1498
LMArena German—1493
LMArena Japanese—1502
LMArena Korean—1459
LMArena Russian—1515
LMArena Spanish—1485

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following—1490

Long Context Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Longer Query—1508

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Command R7B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand R7BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Text—1499
LMArena Creative Writing—1492
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1748
LMArena Multi-Turn—1501

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R7B better than Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Command R7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Command R7B or Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Command R7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.0375 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.8 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.8 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R7B and Gemini 3.8 Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R7B has 1 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50.

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