Model comparison

Command R vs Llama 3-70B

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.0 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.0

Rank #267 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.5

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3-70B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command R leads 25.8 to 12.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 45.2% for Command R and 54.5% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Command R and Llama 3-70B specifications
Command RLlama 3-70B
ProviderCohereMeta
Noometry Index31.028.5
Released2024-08-302024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked2931

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 28.8 (#301), Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%43.6%
LMArena Coding11701206
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%54.5%
LiveBench Coding17.9%—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 13.3 (#329), Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts11641195
DTBench46.4%54.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LMCA9.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.91
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench27.5%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Command R leads

Command R: 25.8 (#244), Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Math11551218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
LiveBench Math19.4%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 30.5 (#219), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert11381149
MMLU65.2%79.3%
GPQA Diamond—40.6%

Multilingual Command R leads

Command R: 35.9 (#240), Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English11741142
LMArena Chinese11821114
LMArena French11611231
LMArena German11761169
LMArena Japanese11431017
LMArena Korean11621017
LMArena Russian11741159
LMArena Spanish11501241

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 58.3 (#256), Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following11671194
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Too close to call

Command R: 36.3 (#226), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query11981174

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Command R: 38.4 (#248), Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand RLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text11871221
LMArena Creative Writing11701210
LMArena Multi-Turn11631223
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Llama 3-70B?

Command R is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.0 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command R or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Llama 3-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

Related comparisons

Go deeper