# Command R+ vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

> Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-plus-vs-qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads 20.7 to 9.2.
- Both cost about the same: $2.50 input and $10 output per million tokens.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 29.9 |
| Rank | 257 | 302 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | $2.80 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $8.40 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Command R+: 29.1 (#309)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command R+: —
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |

## Reasoning

- Command R+: 9.2 (#344)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | — |
| DTBench | 54.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.34 | — |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |

## Math

- Command R+: 28.9 (#242)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |

## Knowledge

- Command R+: 36.4 (#169)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | — |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |

## Multimodal

- Command R+: —
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |

## Multilingual

- Command R+: 38.6 (#227)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | — |
| LMArena French | 1209 | — |
| LMArena German | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Command R+: 60.0 (#254)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | — |

## Long Context

- Command R+: 37.3 (#219)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1230 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R+: 43.5 (#228)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R+ better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $2.80 per million input tokens and $8.40 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.