# Command R vs Yi-Large

> Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#272); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-vs-yi-large
- 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 Yi-Large in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Yi-Large leads 36.7 to 29.3.
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 272 | — |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command R: 29.3 (#306)
- Yi-Large: 36.7 (#203)

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.1% | 37.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 45.2% | 47.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 17.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1169 | — |

## Reasoning

- Command R: 13.8 (#331)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 21.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1164 | — |
| DTBench | 46.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 33.3% | — |
| LMCA | 9.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 27.5% | — |

## Math

- Command R: 28.0 (#246)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 19.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1155 | — |

## Knowledge

- Command R: 31.0 (#221)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 65.2% | 79.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1138 | — |

## Multilingual

- Command R: 35.7 (#245)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1182 | — |
| LMArena French | 1162 | — |
| LMArena German | 1176 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1143 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1163 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Command R: 58.1 (#261)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 55.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1167 | — |

## Long Context

- Command R: 36.3 (#231)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1198 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R: 38.2 (#254)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Command R | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1170 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1163 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 16.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R better than Yi-Large?

Command R has enough public results to be ranked (#272); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Command R or Yi-Large better for coding?

Yi-Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Command R and Yi-Large share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.