Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Command R+

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.6

Rank #29 Confirmed

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Command R+ in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 49.1 to 9.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 50% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 5% for Command R+.
  • Claude Sonnet 5 is cheaper at $2 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Claude Sonnet 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
  • Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Command R+
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index54.632.4
Released2026-06-292024-08-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M128K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$10$10
Results tracked5134

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26), Command R+: 29.1 (#309)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Coding14831187
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1541—
SciCode54.3%—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.8%
LiveBench Coding—19.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—41.9%
ALE-Bench1,463—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—63.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18), Command R+: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
APEX-Agents54.5%—
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39), Command R+: 9.2 (#344)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
SimpleBench60.6%17.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14611186
DTBench92.5%54.9%
LMCA50%5%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.21119.34
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%—
CritPt16.9%—
Chess Puzzles35%—
LiveBench Reasoning—24.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—38.1%
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench61.1—
LiveBench—31.8%

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.2 (#27), Command R+: 28.9 (#242)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Math14671188
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%—
ProofBench77%—
LiveBench Math—21.3%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.6 (#47), Command R+: 36.4 (#169)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Expert14901174
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.9%
MMLU—69.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31), Command R+: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Vision1274—
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55), Command R+: 38.6 (#227)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Non-English14311216
LMArena Chinese14771226
LMArena French14601209
LMArena German14401216
LMArena Japanese14221166
LMArena Korean14111138
LMArena Russian14511227
LMArena Spanish14371189

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41), Command R+: 60.0 (#254)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Instruction Following14521197
LiveBench Instruction Following—57.6%

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55), Command R+: 37.3 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Longer Query14631230

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25), Command R+: 43.5 (#228)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Command R+
LMArena Text14421229
LMArena Creative Writing14161235
LMArena Multi-Turn14541213
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—
LiveBench Language—29.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Command R+?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Command R+?

Claude Sonnet 5 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Command R+ better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Command R+ share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Command R+ has 34.

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