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Command R — Benchmark Scores, Pricing & Performance Analysis

Chatbot Arena ELO
1130
Output Speed
90 tok/s
Input Cost
$0.15/1M
Output Cost
$0.60/1M
Context Window
128K
Max Output
4K
Knowledge Cutoff
Mar 2024
Accepts
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Command R by Cohere demonstrates competitive pricing. View detailed benchmark data including scores across coding, math, reasoning, speed, and cost metrics.

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General Benchmarks

Chatbot Arena ELO
113072nd of 74

Human preference ELO from blind head-to-head votes

LMSYS / HuggingFace
MMLU-Pro
52.0%65th of 66

Massive Multitask Language Understanding professional benchmark

HuggingFace Leaderboard
MT-Bench
7.513th of 13

Multi-turn conversation quality on 80 curated dialogues

LMSYS

Coding Benchmarks

LiveCodeBench
18.0%65th of 66

Live competitive programming benchmark

livecodebench.github.io
HumanEval+
62.0%65th of 66

Code generation correctness with extended tests

Papers
SWE-bench Verified
12.0%66th of 67

Real-world software engineering task resolution

swebench.com

Math Benchmarks

GSM8K
72.0%65th of 66

Grade school math word problems

Papers
MATH
45.0%65th of 66

Competition mathematics problem solving

Papers

Reasoning Benchmarks

ARC-AGI
5.0%62nd of 66

Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for general intelligence

arcprize.org
GPQA Diamond
25.0%137th of 140

Graduate-level science Q&A by domain experts

Papers

Speed Benchmarks

Time to First Token
300 ms24th of 92

Latency before first token arrives

Aggregated
Output Speed
90 tok/s37th of 94

Tokens generated per second

Aggregated

Cost Benchmarks

Input Cost
$0.15149th of 413

Cost per 1M input tokens

OpenRouter API
Output Cost
$0.60167th of 413

Cost per 1M output tokens

OpenRouter API

Context Benchmarks

Context Length
128K267th of 451

Maximum context window size

OpenRouter API

Available from 5 providers

The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. You can bring your own key for 2 of these — connect it here.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached inContextYour key
Cohere$0.15$0.6—128KSupported
Eden AI$0.15$0.6—128K—
Kilo Gateway$0.15$0.6—128K—
OpenRouter$0.15$0.6—128KSupported
AnyAPI———128K—

Command R — Benchmark Scores Overview

Scores normalized to percentage scale for visual comparison. ELO scores mapped to 0-100 range (1100-1500).

Command R — Frequently Asked Questions

How intelligent is Command R?

Command R scores 1130 on the Chatbot Arena ELO rating, making it an entry-level AI model. This score is based on blind head-to-head human preference voting.

How much does Command R cost?

Command R costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens. This makes it one of the more affordable models.

How fast is Command R?

Command R generates output at 90 tokens per second, which is moderate compared to other models. The time to first token is 300 ms.

How good is Command R at coding?

Command R achieves 12.0% on SWE-bench Verified, demonstrating basic real-world software engineering capability. This benchmark tests the model's ability to resolve actual GitHub issues.

How good is Command R at math and reasoning?

Command R scores 45.0% on the MATH benchmark (competition-level mathematics). It also achieves 25.0% on GPQA Diamond, a graduate-level science reasoning benchmark.

What is the context window of Command R?

Command R has a context window of 128K tokens. This determines how much text, conversation history, and code the model can process in a single request.

Who created Command R?

Command R was created by Cohere. It is classified as a mid model in our catalogue.

Is Command R open source?

No, Command R is a proprietary model. It is available through Cohere's API and compatible providers.