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Model comparison

Command R vs Mistral Small 3

Command R and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #278 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command R leads 28.0 to 16.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 37.1% for Command R and 45.3% for Mistral Small 3.
  • Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Command R.
  • Command R accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

Command RMistral Small 3
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index31.431.2
Released2024-08-302025-01-30
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K33K
Max output4K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.08
Results tracked2924

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small 3 leads

Command R: 29.3 (#306), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
BigCodeBench Instruct37.1%45.3%
LMArena Coding11691246
BigCodeBench Complete45.2%50.4%
LiveBench Coding17.9%—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3 leads

Command R: 13.8 (#331), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
LMArena Hard Prompts11641233
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning21.9%—
DTBench46.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis33.3%—
LMCA9.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.07
LiveBench27.5%—

Math Command R leads

Command R: 28.0 (#246), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
LMArena Math11551240
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%
LiveBench Math19.4%—

Knowledge Command R leads

Command R: 31.0 (#221), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
LMArena Expert11381202
GPQA Diamond—47.3%
Confabulations—25.2%
MMLU65.2%—

Multilingual Mistral Small 3 leads

Command R: 35.7 (#245), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
LMArena Non-English11741198
LMArena Chinese11821204
LMArena French11621203
LMArena German11761211
LMArena Japanese11431111
LMArena Korean11631188
LMArena Russian11741216
LMArena Spanish1151—

Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads

Command R: 58.1 (#261), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
LMArena Instruction Following11671214
LiveBench Instruction Following55.6%—

Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads

Command R: 36.3 (#231), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
LMArena Longer Query11981246

Writing & Preference Command R leads

Command R: 38.2 (#254), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

BenchmarkCommand RMistral Small 3
LMArena Text11871234
LMArena Creative Writing11701195
LMArena Multi-Turn11631217
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—707
LiveBench Language16.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R better than Mistral Small 3?

Command R and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Command R or Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Command R lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Is Command R or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command R does, with 128K tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Command R and Mistral Small 3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R has 29 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.

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