# Command R vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-vs-gemini-2-0-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 28

## Summary

- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 58.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 19.4% for Command R and 75.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Google |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 35.1 |
| Rank | 272 | 228 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command R: 29.3 (#306)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.1% | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 17.9% | 63.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1169 | 1350 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 45.2% | 59.9% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command R: —
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |

## Reasoning

- Command R: 13.8 (#331)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 21.9% | 78.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1164 | 1346 |
| DTBench | 46.4% | 63.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 33.3% | 69.4% |
| LiveBench | 27.5% | 66.9% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LMCA | 9.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |

## Math

- Command R: 28.0 (#246)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 19.4% | 75.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1155 | 1352 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Command R: 31.0 (#221)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1138 | 1339 |
| MMLU | 65.2% | 79.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |

## Multimodal

- Command R: —
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |

## Multilingual

- Command R: 35.7 (#245)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1174 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1182 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1162 | 1391 |
| LMArena German | 1176 | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1143 | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | 1163 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1174 | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | 1363 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R: 58.1 (#261)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 55.6% | 85.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1167 | 1336 |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |

## Long Context

- Command R: 36.3 (#231)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1198 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R: 38.2 (#254)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1187 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1170 | 1340 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1163 | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | 16.7% | 51.3% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |

## FAQ

### Is Command R better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Command R or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.3 vs 28.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Command R and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.