# Command R vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 100× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1 leads 55.6 to 38.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 21.9% for Command R and 91.6% for o1.
- Command R is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 272 | 143 |
| Context | 128K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | $15 |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command R: 29.3 (#306)
- o1: 46.1 (#70)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 17.9% | 69.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1169 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 45.2% | — |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command R: —
- o1: 24.6 (#117)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Command R: 13.8 (#331)
- o1: 27.9 (#111)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 21.9% | 91.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1164 | 1371 |
| DTBench | 46.4% | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 33.3% | 65.5% |
| LMCA | 9.2% | 22.3% |
| LiveBench | 27.5% | 75.7% |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.91 |

## Math

- Command R: 28.0 (#246)
- o1: 36.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 19.4% | 80.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1155 | 1388 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Command R: 31.0 (#221)
- o1: 41.5 (#110)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1138 | 1361 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| MMLU | 65.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Command R: —
- o1: 34.2 (#93)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Command R: 35.7 (#245)
- o1: 48.6 (#142)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1174 | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1182 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1162 | 1344 |
| LMArena German | 1176 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1143 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1163 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1174 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R: 58.1 (#261)
- o1: 74.8 (#86)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 55.6% | 81.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1167 | 1367 |

## Long Context

- Command R: 36.3 (#231)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1198 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R: 38.2 (#254)
- o1: 55.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Command R | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1187 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1170 | 1348 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1163 | 1369 |
| LiveBench Language | 16.7% | 65.4% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Command R better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Command R costs 100× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Command R or o1?

Command R is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

### Is Command R or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

o1 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Command R and o1 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.