Command R+: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Command R+ from Cohere,Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI) ranks #593 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (45.4), based on 2 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Cohere,Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI)
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2024-08-30 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $2.50 in / $10.00 out per million tokens (via openrouter, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
Aggregate rank: #593 of 743 (score 45.4)

Across the 2 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, Command R+ is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Its cheapest listed input price, $2.50 per million tokens, is lower than that of 15% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Command R+ benchmark results

Command R+ benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	119	#130 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13
Aider Code Editing	31.6%	#83 of 92	Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard	2026-10-13

About Command R+

Command R+ is a frontier model from Cohere,Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI). It was released on 2024-08-30, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, through openrouter. We hold 2 benchmark results for it across 2 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Command R+ stands

On our aggregate score, Command R+ is #593 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 45.4; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 4.6 points below the typical model. That beats 20% of the ranked field. Among the 3 ranked Cohere,Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI) models it is #2. The next one up is Command A+ at 46.8. The next one down is c4ai-command-r-plus-08-2024 at 41.2.

Command R+, benchmark by benchmark

Command R+ lands below the middle on Epoch ECI: 119, #130 of 204, with 63% of the field scoring higher. Qwen 3.8 Max leads at 156; the closest result above is Qwen2.5-Coder-32B at 119. It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Command R+ is 8 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Aider Code Editing is a weak spot. Command R+ scores 31.6%, #83 of 92, behind 89% of the models measured. The leader, Claude 3.5-Sonnet-20241022, reaches 84.2%. It covers Aider official benchmark. The board median is 55.6%, so Command R+ is 24.0 points below it. Source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

Command R+ has too few results on boards with ten or more models to say where it is strong or weak. Treat any single score as a data point, not a verdict.

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so Command R+ costs more than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (high) ($0.010, 48.9), Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct ($0.010, 46.5). Similar scores cost more on grok-3 ($3.00) and Claude Sonnet 4 (unknown thinking) ($3.00).

Release history

The Cohere,Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI) model released before it was c4ai-command-r-plus-08-2024 on 2024-08-30, which scores 41.2. The next one was Command A+ on 2026-05-20, at 46.8.

Reading these numbers

The 2 scores on this page come from 2 sources: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard (1), Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 1 from datasets or third-party runs. With 2 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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