# Amazon Nova Pro vs Command R

> Amazon Nova Pro and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-command-r
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Command R in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 65.1 to 58.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 38.1% for Amazon Nova Pro and 17.9% for Command R.
- Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 31.0 |
| Rank | 278 | 267 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $0.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 34.6 (#224)
- Command R: 28.8 (#301)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | 17.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1170 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 45.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.6 (#139)
- Command R: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 19.2 (#240)
- Command R: 13.3 (#329)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | 21.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1164 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | 33.3% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | 27.5% |
| DTBench | — | 46.4% |
| LMCA | — | 9.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.75 | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 26.4 (#240)
- Command R: 25.8 (#244)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 38% | 19.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1155 |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.1 (#246)
- Command R: 30.5 (#219)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1138 |
| MMLU | 82% | 65.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 24.5 (#121)
- Command R: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.9 (#218)
- Command R: 35.9 (#240)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1174 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1182 |
| LMArena French | 1270 | 1161 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1176 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1143 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1162 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1174 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1150 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 65.1 (#221)
- Command R: 58.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1167 |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#199)
- Command R: 36.3 (#226)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1198 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 44.1 (#221)
- Command R: 38.4 (#248)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1187 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1170 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1245 | 1163 |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | 16.7% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Command R?

Amazon Nova Pro and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Command R?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or Command R better for coding?

Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Command R share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.