Model comparison
Command R+ vs Mistral Small 3.1
Command R+ and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.0 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R+ leads 35.9 to 22.6.
- Mistral Small 3.1 is cheaper at $0.35 / $0.56 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
Side by side
| Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.0 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2024-08-30 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 4K | 102K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.56 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Command R+: 28.6 (#304), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.7 (#175)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1309 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Command R+: 8.9 (#341), Mistral Small 3.1: 18.9 (#249)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1278 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.28 | 127.48 |
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| DTBench | 54.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |
Math Command R+ leads
Command R+: 26.6 (#239), Mistral Small 3.1: 13.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1261 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.8% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |
Knowledge Command R+ leads
Command R+: 35.9 (#165), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1258 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 61% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 39.2% |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command R+: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 32.6 (#93)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1136 |
Multilingual Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Command R+: 38.8 (#222), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.4 (#204)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1254 |
| LMArena French | 1208 | 1270 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1210 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1283 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Command R+: 60.2 (#249), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.8 (#225)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1264 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 75% |
Long Context Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Command R+: 37.3 (#214), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#172)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | 1300 |
Writing & Preference Command R+ leads
Command R+: 43.7 (#223), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.2 (#254)
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1278 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1253 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command R+ better than Mistral Small 3.1?
Command R+ and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.0 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Mistral Small 3.1?
Mistral Small 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $0.56 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command R+ or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 28.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Mistral Small 3.1 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.