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Benchmark suiteLatest source data: Jun 10, 2026Checked: June 14, 2026

Command R.

A model-level benchmark profile for Command R, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Cohere lab page

Lab

Cohere

Proprietary

Coverage

22%

2 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#283

Text Arena

Best suite

#96

Value / 65

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Command R is strongest on value.

22% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #96 in the value view, with a 65 value index. The strongest raw Arena signal is Text Arena at rank #283 with 54,036 public votes.

Best current lane

Value

#96 / 65 value index

Strongest raw signal

Text

#283, 1226 score

Commercial posture

$0.750

Not listed first token / Not listed

Coverage gaps

WebDev ArenaVision ArenaSearch ArenaDocument ArenaLatencyOutput speedSWE-bench

Profile completeness

2 of 9 signals matched

22%

Arena categories

1/5

Text

Commercial match

Live

Command-R (Mar '24)

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

command-r

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,226#283

1221-1231 CI

54,036 votes

Jun 10, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Vision Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$0.750

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.500

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$1.50

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

Not listed

Median time to first token

Output speed

Not listed

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Command-R (Mar '24)

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#9665

value index

blended / 1M tokens$0.750
time to first tokenNot listed
output speedNot listed

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

Not listed

Not enough matched source rows for this composite view.

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

Not listed

Not enough matched source rows for this composite view.

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#26247

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #2831,226
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision ArenaNot listed

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#28747

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #2831,226

Lab context

Nearby Cohere profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Command A 03 2025

command-a-03-2025

Proprietary

Best rank

#166

Coverage

11%

Command R Plus 08 2024

command-r-plus-08-2024

Proprietary

Best rank

#256

Coverage

11%

C4AI Aya Expanse 32b

c4ai-aya-expanse-32b

Proprietary

Best rank

#262

Coverage

11%

Command R Plus

command-r-plus

Proprietary

Best rank

#266

Coverage

11%

Command R 08 2024

command-r-08-2024

Proprietary

Best rank

#272

Coverage

11%

C4AI Aya Expanse 8b

c4ai-aya-expanse-8b

Proprietary

Best rank

#287

Coverage

11%