# Command R+ vs Grok 3

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-plus-vs-grok-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 3 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok 3 leads 75.2 to 60.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 17.4% for Command R+ and 36.1% for Grok 3.
- Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.0 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 251 | 150 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command R+: 28.6 (#304)
- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1432 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command R+: —
- Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |

## Reasoning

- Command R+: 8.9 (#341)
- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | 36.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1433 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.28 | 138.34 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| 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: 36.2 (#122)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1390 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Command R+: 35.9 (#165)
- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | 5.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1420 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- Command R+: 38.8 (#222)
- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1411 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1208 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1389 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1374 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1417 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R+: 60.2 (#249)
- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1409 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 88.4% |

## Long Context

- Command R+: 37.3 (#214)
- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | 1439 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R+: 43.7 (#223)
- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1414 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1424 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| WildBench | — | 84.9% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |

## FAQ

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

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 32.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 28.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.