# Command R+ vs Llama 4 Maverick

> Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.0 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-plus-vs-llama-4-maverick
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.9 to 60.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 41.9% for Command R+ and 61.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.

## Snapshot

| | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.0 | 30.6 |
| Rank | 251 | 276 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | $0.19 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $0.65 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Command R+: 28.6 (#304)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | 49.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1302 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | 61.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command R+: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |

## Reasoning

- Command R+: 8.9 (#341)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | 27.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1281 |
| DTBench | 54.9% | 61.9% |
| LMCA | 5% | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.28 | 132.2 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |

## Math

- Command R+: 26.6 (#239)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1299 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 20.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 42.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |

## Knowledge

- Command R+: 35.9 (#165)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | 8.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1259 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 67% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |

## Multimodal

- Command R+: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |

## Multilingual

- Command R+: 38.8 (#222)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1208 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1293 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R+: 60.2 (#249)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1267 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 90.8% |

## Long Context

- Command R+: 37.3 (#214)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | 1280 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R+: 43.7 (#223)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1266 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1289 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R+ better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.0 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is Command R+ or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Command R+ scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.6 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Llama 4 Maverick share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.