Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Command R
Amazon Nova Lite and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Command R in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 19.3 to 13.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 36.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 19.4% for Command R.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Command R.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Command R | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-08-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Command R: 29.3 (#306)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 17.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1169 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 45.2% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Command R: 13.8 (#331)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 21.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1164 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 33.3% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 27.5% |
| DTBench | — | 46.4% |
| LMCA | — | 9.2% |
Math Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Command R: 28.0 (#246)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 19.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1155 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
Knowledge Command R leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Command R: 31.0 (#221)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1138 |
| MMLU | 77% | 65.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Command R: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Command R: 35.7 (#245)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1174 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1182 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1162 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1176 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1143 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1163 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1174 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1151 |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Command R: 58.1 (#261)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1167 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Command R: 36.3 (#231)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1198 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Command R: 38.2 (#254)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command R |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1187 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1170 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1163 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 16.7% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Command R?
Amazon Nova Lite and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Command R?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Command R lists at $0.15 and $0.60.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Command R better for coding?
Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Command R share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.