Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs Mistral Small 3.2

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small 3.2 costs 33× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.0

Rank #251 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command R+ leads 35.9 to 26.8.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command R+Mistral Small 3.2
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index32.030.8
Released2024-08-302025-06-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K256K
Max output4K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.25
Results tracked346

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command R+: 28.6 (#304), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
LMArena Coding1187—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Command R+: 8.9 (#341), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
Epoch Capabilities Index119.28131.73
SimpleBench17.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1186—
DTBench54.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LMCA5%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Command R+ leads

Command R+: 26.6 (#239), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
LiveBench Math21.3%—
LMArena Math1188—

Knowledge Command R+ leads

Command R+: 35.9 (#165), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%—
LMArena Expert1174—
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command R+: 38.8 (#222), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1216—
LMArena Chinese1226—
LMArena French1208—
LMArena German1216—
LMArena Japanese1166—
LMArena Korean1138—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1189—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command R+: 60.2 (#249), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1197—

Long Context Not comparable

Command R+: 37.3 (#214), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1231—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Command R+: 43.7 (#223), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)

BenchmarkCommand R+Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1229—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
LMArena Multi-Turn1213—
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Command R+ is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small 3.2 costs 33× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command R+'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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