# Claude Instant vs Command R

> Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#272); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-command-r
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Command R in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 13.8.
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 31.4 |
| Rank | — | 272 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Command R: 29.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 17.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1169 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 45.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Command R: 13.8 (#331)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 46.4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 21.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1164 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 33.3% |
| LMCA | — | 9.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 27.5% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Command R: 28.0 (#246)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1155 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Command R: 31.0 (#221)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 65.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1138 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Command R: 35.7 (#245)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| 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

- Claude Instant: —
- Command R: 58.1 (#261)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1167 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Command R: 36.3 (#231)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1198 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Command R: 38.2 (#254)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1187 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1170 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1163 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 16.7% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Command R?

Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#272); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Command R share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.