Model comparison
Command R vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
GoogleSummary
- They share 21 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 writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 38.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 45.2% 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 | 31.4 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2024-08-30 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 29 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R: 29.3 (#306), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.1% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1169 | 1261 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 45.2% | 55.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 17.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |
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: 13.8 (#331), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1164 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 46.4% | 53.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 21.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 33.3% | — |
| LMCA | 9.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| LiveBench | 27.5% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Command R leads
Command R: 28.0 (#246), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1155 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 19.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Command R leads
Command R: 31.0 (#221), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1138 | 1233 |
| MMLU | 65.2% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| 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: 35.7 (#245), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1174 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1182 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1162 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1176 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1143 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1163 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1174 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | 1243 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R: 58.1 (#261), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1167 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 55.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R: 36.3 (#231), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1198 | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Command R: 38.2 (#254), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Command R | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1187 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1170 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1163 | 1253 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |
| LiveBench Language | 16.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command R better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
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 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command R and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.