Model comparison
Command R+ vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Command R+ and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.4 vs 33.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
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GoogleSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 21.7 to 9.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 41.9% for Command R+ and 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
- Command R+ has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2024-08-30 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1261 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | 67.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command R+: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 54.9% | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.34 | 129.36 |
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Command R+ leads
Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Command R+ leads
Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1233 |
| MMLU | 69.4% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command R+: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1209 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1243 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1230 | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1253 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command R+ better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Command R+ and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.4 vs 33.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Command R+ or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.