# Command R+ vs Grok-3 mini

> Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-plus-vs-grok-3-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Grok-3 mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok-3 mini leads 78.7 to 60.2.
- Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.0 | 41.0 |
| Rank | 251 | 130 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command R+: 28.6 (#304)
- Grok-3 mini: 40.4 (#126)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1380 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 49.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Command R+: 8.9 (#341)
- Grok-3 mini: 13.8 (#323)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1374 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.28 | 140.35 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 16.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| DTBench | 54.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |

## Math

- Command R+: 26.6 (#239)
- Grok-3 mini: 40.3 (#78)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1386 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 31.8% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 5.9% |

## Knowledge

- Command R+: 35.9 (#165)
- Grok-3 mini: 46.3 (#75)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1395 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 79.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 67.5% |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- Command R+: 38.8 (#222)
- Grok-3 mini: 48.3 (#141)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1208 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1343 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1336 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1352 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1379 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R+: 60.2 (#249)
- Grok-3 mini: 78.7 (#8)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1356 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 95.1% |

## Long Context

- Command R+: 37.3 (#214)
- Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#142)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | 1372 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R+: 43.7 (#223)
- Grok-3 mini: 52.7 (#163)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1342 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1355 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.5% |
| WildBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R+ better than Grok-3 mini?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Command R+ or Grok-3 mini better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 28.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Grok-3 mini share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.