# Command R vs DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)

> Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#267); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-vs-deepseek-v2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 28.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 45.2% for Command R and 59.4% for DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024).

## Snapshot

| | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 39.7 |
| Rank | 267 | — |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Command R: 28.8 (#301)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.1% | 48.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 45.2% | 59.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 17.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1170 | — |

## Reasoning

- Command R: 13.3 (#329)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 21.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1164 | — |
| DTBench | 46.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 33.3% | — |
| LMCA | 9.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 78.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 124.78 |
| HellaSwag | — | 87.1% |
| LiveBench | 27.5% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 86.3% |

## Math

- Command R: 25.8 (#244)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 19.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1155 | — |

## Knowledge

- Command R: 30.5 (#219)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 65.2% | 78.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1138 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 92.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 80% |

## Multilingual

- Command R: 35.9 (#240)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1182 | — |
| LMArena French | 1161 | — |
| LMArena German | 1176 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1143 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1162 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1150 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Command R: 58.3 (#256)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 55.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1167 | — |

## Long Context

- Command R: 36.3 (#226)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1198 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R: 38.4 (#248)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command R | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1170 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1163 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 16.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R better than DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)?

Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#267); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Command R or DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Command R and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10.