Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Command R+

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 6 categories and Command R+ in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command R+ leads 28.9 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 43.6% for Claude 3 Opus and 21.3% for Command R+.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Command R+ specifications
Claude 3 OpusCommand R+
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index29.532.4
Released2024-02-292024-08-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked4634

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Command R+: 29.1 (#309)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%33.8%
LiveBench Coding38.6%19.1%
LMArena Coding12641187
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%41.9%
HumanEval+77.4%56.7%
MBPP+73.3%63.5%
WeirdML19.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Command R+: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Command R+: 9.2 (#344)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
SimpleBench23.5%17.4%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%24.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451186
DTBench61.6%54.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%38.1%
LMCA17%5%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91119.34
LiveBench49.2%31.8%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
ForecastBench58.4—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Command R+ leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Command R+: 28.9 (#242)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
LiveBench Math43.6%21.3%
LMArena Math12731188
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Command R+: 36.4 (#169)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
LMArena Expert12231174
MMLU84.6%69.4%
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Command R+: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Command R+: 38.6 (#227)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
LMArena Non-English12581216
LMArena Chinese12481226
LMArena French12751209
LMArena German12581216
LMArena Japanese12041166
LMArena Korean11871138
LMArena Russian12801227
LMArena Spanish12461189

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Command R+: 60.0 (#254)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%57.6%
LMArena Instruction Following12481197

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Command R+: 37.3 (#219)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
LMArena Longer Query12591230

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Command R+: 43.5 (#228)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand R+
LMArena Text12621229
LMArena Creative Writing12351235
LMArena Multi-Turn12751213
LiveBench Language50.4%29.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Command R+?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Command R+ better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Command R+ share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Command R+ has 34.

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