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Model comparison

Command R+ vs Llama 3.1-405B

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command R+ leads 28.9 to 18.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 54.9% for Command R+ and 61.4% for Llama 3.1-405B.

Side by side

Command R+Llama 3.1-405B
ProviderCohereMeta
Noometry Index32.430.7
Released2024-08-302024-07-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked3442

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1-405B leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Coding11871291
WeirdML—21.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Llama 3.1-405B leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench17.4%23%
LMArena Hard Prompts11861269
DTBench54.9%61.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34128.75
Kagi LLM Benchmark—45%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LMCA5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
ForecastBench—59.9
HellaSwag—89.2%
LiveBench31.8%—
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math Command R+ leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Math11881281
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—9.7%
Omni-MATH—24.9%
LiveBench Math21.3%—
MATH Level 5—49.8%

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Expert11741243
MMLU69.4%84.5%
GPQA Diamond—50.9%
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—17.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
GPQA (HELM)—52.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English12161248
LMArena Chinese12261242
LMArena French12091279
LMArena German12161252
LMArena Japanese11661208
LMArena Korean11381184
LMArena Russian12271265
LMArena Spanish11891260

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Instruction Following11971259
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—
IFEval—81.1%

Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query12301266

Writing & Preference Command R+ leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

BenchmarkCommand R+Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text12291284
LMArena Creative Writing12351262
LMArena Multi-Turn12131297
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—870
WildBench—78.3%
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R+ or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Llama 3.1-405B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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