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Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Command R

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Command R in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command R leads 28.0 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 45.2% for Command R.
  • Command R has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetCommand R
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index29.031.4
Released2024-02-292024-08-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked3029

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Command R: 29.3 (#306)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%37.1%
LMArena Coding12231169
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%45.2%
WeirdML10.2%—
LiveBench Coding—17.9%
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Command R: 13.8 (#331)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Hard Prompts11971164
DTBench53.6%46.4%
LiveBench Reasoning—21.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—33.3%
LMCA—9.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
LiveBench—27.5%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Command R leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Command R: 28.0 (#246)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Math12131155
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
LiveBench Math—19.4%
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Command R leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Command R: 31.0 (#221)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Expert11731138
MMLU75.9%65.2%
GPQA Diamond40.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Command R: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Command R: 35.7 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Non-English12051174
LMArena Chinese11891182
LMArena French12291162
LMArena German12041176
LMArena Japanese11311143
LMArena Korean11281163
LMArena Russian12271174
LMArena Spanish12041151

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Command R: 58.1 (#261)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Instruction Following11991167
LiveBench Instruction Following—55.6%

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Command R: 36.3 (#231)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Longer Query12111198

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Command R: 38.2 (#254)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand R
LMArena Text12181187
LMArena Creative Writing11861170
LMArena Multi-Turn12271163
LiveBench Language—16.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Command R?

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Command R better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.6 vs 29.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Command R share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.

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