# Command R+ vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

> Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-plus-vs-gemini-2-5-flash-lite
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 57.0 to 43.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 5% for Command R+ and 18.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
- Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Google |
| Noometry Index | 32.0 | 36.4 |
| Rank | 251 | 208 |
| Context | 128K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $0.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command R+: 28.6 (#304)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1373 |
| WeirdML | — | 35.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 325.9 |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command R+: —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 36.9% |

## Reasoning

- Command R+: 8.9 (#341)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1377 |
| DTBench | 54.9% | 62.8% |
| LMCA | 5% | 18.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.28 | 133.93 |
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |

## Math

- Command R+: 26.6 (#239)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1373 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 48% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Command R+: 35.9 (#165)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | 3.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1373 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.9% |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |

## Multimodal

- Command R+: —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1198 |
| VPCT | — | 30% |

## Multilingual

- Command R+: 38.8 (#222)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1369 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1404 |
| LMArena French | 1208 | 1388 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1390 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1359 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1358 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1373 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1396 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R+: 60.2 (#249)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1366 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 81% |

## Long Context

- Command R+: 37.3 (#214)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | 1373 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 47.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R+: 43.7 (#223)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1379 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1366 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1367 |
| WildBench | — | 81.8% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R+ better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is Command R+ or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 28.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.