Alternatives to Command R+ (08-2024)

Cohere LMArena 1228.9 $4.38/M on a balanced workload prices as of 2026-10-06

117 models are higher-scoring or cheaper, with neither dimension worse.

Of the 144 models carrying both an independent score and a published price at the same delivery mode, 124 score at least as high as Command R+ (08-2024) and cost no more under at least one listed workload, with at least one of those dimensions improved. 117 match or beat its recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning. 7 have a recorded capability loss, named on every row.

Dominance is not a property of a model. It is a property of a model, a capability lens and a workload, and all three are named on every row. Scores are LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset; prices are blended per million tokens. A higher score is not a drop-in replacement.

This page is built only while a candidate improves score or price without worsening the other under a listed workload. When that comparison no longer holds, it is not generated.

Where it holds

Workload	Command R+ (08-2024) $/M	Recorded capabilities preserved	Recorded capability losses
Balanced	$4.38	110	7
Summarise	$2.88	117	7
Chat	$5.50	111	7
Code gen	$7.00	109	7
Agentic	$3.63	117	7

Workload mixes are defined on the methodology page. Cached input is priced at the cached rate, and reasoning tokens at the worse of the reasoning and output rates.

What you would be replacing

Intelligence	1228.9
Context window	128K
Max output	4K
Input modes	text
Tool use	yes
Extended reasoning	no

Preserving recorded capabilities requires matching or beating these fields. Full record for Command R+ (08-2024), or check Command R+ (08-2024) against the whole catalogue.

Recorded capabilities preserved 117

Each option has a higher score or a lower price, with neither dimension worse under the listed workloads. It matches or beats Command R+ (08-2024) on recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning.

#	Model	Intelligence	$/M	Holds under
1	Gemini 3.8 Flash Google	1497 +268.1	$3.00	Balanced −31% Summarise −51% Chat −36% Code gen −29% Agentic −56%
2	MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi	1491 +262.1	$0.540	Balanced −88% Summarise −89% Chat −91% Code gen −91% Agentic −93%
3	Muse Spark 1.3 Meta	1489.9 +261	$2.00	Balanced −54% Summarise −62% Chat −61% Code gen −58% Agentic −71%
4	Gemini 3.7 Flash Google	1487 +258.1	$3.00	Balanced −31% Summarise −51% Chat −36% Code gen −29% Agentic −56%
5	Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	1483.2 +254.3	$2.00	Balanced −54% Summarise −62% Chat −61% Code gen −58% Agentic −71%
6	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	1479.5 +250.6	$1.50	Balanced −66% Summarise −75% Chat −68% Code gen −64% Agentic −78%
7	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	1479.2 +250.3	$2.00	Balanced −54% Summarise −62% Chat −61% Code gen −58% Agentic −71%
8	Gemini 3.5 Flash Google	1477.7 +248.8	$3.38	Balanced −23% Summarise −48% Chat −26% Code gen −16% Agentic −50%
9	GLM 5.3 Z.ai	1471.4 +242.5	$1.00	Balanced −77% Summarise −88% Chat −73% Code gen −70% Agentic −82%
10	GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai	1469.6 +240.7	$0.238	Balanced −95% Summarise −95% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −96%
11	GLM 5.2 Z.ai	1470.4 +241.5	$1.12	Balanced −74% Summarise −85% Chat −72% Code gen −68% Agentic −81%
12	Kimi K3 Moonshot AI	1475.9 +247	$3.76	Balanced −14% Summarise −57% Agentic −34%
13	MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi	1465 +236.1	$0.544	Balanced −88% Summarise −88% Chat −91% Code gen −91% Agentic −93%
14	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	1462.5 +233.6	$0.182	Balanced −96% Summarise −98% Chat −96% Code gen −95% Agentic −97%
15	Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic	1466.6 +237.7	$4.00	Balanced −9% Summarise −34% Chat −15% Code gen −5% Agentic −41%
16	GLM 5.1 Z.ai	1461.5 +232.6	$1.83	Balanced −58% Summarise −60% Chat −63% Code gen −62% Agentic −66%
17	MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi	1456.4 +227.5	$0.175	Balanced −96% Summarise −96% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −98%
18	Qwen3.7 Plus Qwen	1454.6 +225.7	$0.560	Balanced −87% Summarise −90% Chat −89% Code gen −87% Agentic −91%
19	Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI	1455.5 +226.6	$0.961	Balanced −78% Summarise −84% Chat −79% Code gen −77% Agentic −85%
20	Gemini 2.5 Pro Google	1457.8 +228.9	$3.44	Balanced −21% Summarise −52% Chat −20% Code gen −8% Agentic −48%
21	GLM 5 Z.ai	1446.3 +217.4	$1.09	Balanced −75% Summarise −79% Chat −79% Code gen −77% Agentic −84%
22	Gemma 4 31B Google	1443.4 +214.5	$0.205	Balanced −95% Summarise −95% Chat −96% Code gen −96% Agentic −95%
23	Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI	1445.2 +216.3	$1.20	Balanced −73% Summarise −80% Chat −74% Code gen −71% Agentic −82%
24	DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 DeepSeek	1445.2 +216.3	$1.21	Balanced −72% Summarise −83% Chat −72% Code gen −68% Agentic −81%
25	Qwen3.6 Max Preview Qwen	1446.8 +217.9	$2.31	Balanced −47% Summarise −55% Chat −44% Code gen −41% Agentic −50%
26	Grok 4.5 xAI	1448.1 +219.2	$3.00	Balanced −31% Summarise −40% Chat −44% Code gen −39% Agentic −56%
27	Hy3 Tencent	1440.7 +211.8	$0.231	Balanced −95% Summarise −96% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −96%
28	Qwen3.8 27B Qwen	1440.7 +211.8	$0.562	Balanced −87% Summarise −94% Chat −85% Code gen −83% Agentic −90%
29	GLM 4.6 Z.ai	1439.9 +211	$0.760	Balanced −83% Summarise −86% Chat −84% Code gen −83% Agentic −88%
30	Inkling Thinking Machines	1441.8 +212.9	$1.73	Balanced −61% Summarise −69% Chat −64% Code gen −61% Agentic −74%
31	GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI	1445.6 +216.7	$4.00	Balanced −9% Summarise −35% Chat −16% Code gen −5% Agentic −43%
32	Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen	1438 +209.1	$0.878	Balanced −80% Summarise −83% Chat −79% Code gen −78% Agentic −81%
33	Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen	1436.7 +207.8	$0.731	Balanced −83% Summarise −86% Chat −82% Code gen −81% Agentic −84%
34	GLM 4.7 Z.ai	1435.5 +206.6	$0.738	Balanced −83% Summarise −87% Chat −85% Code gen −83% Agentic −89%
35	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	1442.9 +214	$4.00	Balanced −9% Summarise −34% Chat −15% Code gen −5% Agentic −41%
36	Gemma 4 26B A4B Google	1433.9 +205	$0.127	Balanced −97% Summarise −98% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −98%
37	GLM 5V Turbo Z.ai	1437.2 +208.3	$1.90	Balanced −57% Summarise −63% Chat −63% Code gen −60% Agentic −71%
38	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google	1434.7 +205.8	$0.850	Balanced −81% Summarise −88% Chat −80% Code gen −77% Agentic −87%
39	DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 DeepSeek	1432.1 +203.2	$0.113	Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −98%
40	MiniMax M3 MiniMax	1432.1 +203.2	$0.485	Balanced −89% Summarise −91% Chat −90% Code gen −89% Agentic −93%
41	GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	1431 +202.1	$0.450	Balanced −90% Summarise −93% Chat −90% Code gen −89% Agentic −93%
42	GLM 4.5 Z.ai	1430.3 +201.4	$1.00	Balanced −77% Summarise −81% Chat −80% Code gen −78% Agentic −85%
43	MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi	1427.5 +198.6	$0.175	Balanced −96% Summarise −96% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −98%
44	R1 0528 DeepSeek	1427.9 +199	$0.920	Balanced −79% Summarise −80% Chat −79% Code gen −78% Agentic −79%
45	DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	1424.5 +195.6	$0.290	Balanced −93% Summarise −92% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −94%
46	DeepSeek V3.2 Exp DeepSeek	1422.4 +193.5	$0.305	Balanced −93% Summarise −90% Chat −94% Code gen −95% Agentic −92%
47	Grok 4.6 xAI	1427.4 +198.5	$3.00	Balanced −31% Summarise −38% Chat −43% Code gen −39% Agentic −53%
48	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen	1420.1 +191.2	$0.370	Balanced −92% Summarise −93% Chat −92% Code gen −91% Agentic −93%
49	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Qwen	1419.3 +190.4	$0.205	Balanced −95% Summarise −96% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −96%
50	DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek	1419.7 +190.8	$0.453	Balanced −90% Summarise −89% Chat −90% Code gen −90% Agentic −90%
51	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen	1417.3 +188.4	$0.268	Balanced −94% Summarise −95% Chat −93% Code gen −93% Agentic −94%
52	DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek	1417.1 +188.2	$0.453	Balanced −90% Summarise −89% Chat −90% Code gen −90% Agentic −90%
53	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen	1417.1 +188.2	$0.715	Balanced −84% Summarise −88% Chat −82% Code gen −81% Agentic −85%
54	Gemini 2.5 Flash Google	1417 +188.1	$0.850	Balanced −81% Summarise −88% Chat −80% Code gen −77% Agentic −87%
55	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview Google	1415.7 +186.8	$0.563	Balanced −87% Summarise −91% Chat −88% Code gen −86% Agentic −92%
56	GPT-5.1 OpenAI	1422.2 +193.3	$3.44	Balanced −21% Summarise −52% Chat −20% Code gen −8% Agentic −48%
57	Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral	1421.2 +192.3	$3.00	Balanced −31% Summarise −37% Chat −29% Code gen −27% Agentic −34%
58	Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 Qwen	1415.2 +186.3	$0.748	Balanced −83% Summarise −88% Chat −81% Code gen −79% Agentic −85%
59	Inkling Small Thinking Machines	1413.7 +184.8	$0.638	Balanced −85% Summarise −87% Chat −88% Code gen −88% Agentic −90%
60	Qwen3 Max Qwen	1412.4 +183.5	$1.56	Balanced −64% Summarise −74% Chat −67% Code gen −63% Agentic −76%
61	Qwen3.5-27B Qwen	1408.9 +180	$0.536	Balanced −88% Summarise −91% Chat −87% Code gen −86% Agentic −89%
62	GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI	1411.4 +182.5	$1.69	Balanced −61% Summarise −74% Chat −63% Code gen −58% Agentic −75%
63	MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax	1404.6 +175.7	$0.525	Balanced −88% Summarise −90% Chat −89% Code gen −88% Agentic −92%
64	Step 3.5 Flash StepFun	1403 +174.1	$0.150	Balanced −97% Summarise −96% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −96%
65	o3 OpenAI	1409.9 +181	$3.50	Balanced −20% Summarise −35% Chat −28% Code gen −22% Agentic −45%
66	GPT-5 OpenAI	1406.1 +177.2	$3.44	Balanced −21% Summarise −52% Chat −20% Code gen −8% Agentic −48%
67	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen	1400.7 +171.8	$1.30	Balanced −70% Summarise −80% Chat −67% Code gen −63% Agentic −74%
68	Qwen3.5-Flash Qwen	1397 +168.1	$0.114	Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −97%
69	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen	1394.4 +165.5	$0.355	Balanced −92% Summarise −95% Chat −92% Code gen −91% Agentic −94%
70	Grok 4.3 xAI	1396.7 +167.8	$1.56	Balanced −64% Summarise −65% Chat −74% Code gen −73% Agentic −78%
71	Grok 4.7 xAI	1399.9 +171	$3.00	Balanced −31% Summarise −38% Chat −43% Code gen −39% Agentic −53%
72	Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic	1396.1 +167.2	$2.00	Balanced −54% Summarise −67% Chat −58% Code gen −52% Agentic −71%
73	GPT-6 Luna OpenAI	1391.5 +162.6	$0.200	Balanced −95% Summarise −97% Chat −96% Code gen −95% Agentic −97%
74	GPT-6 Sol OpenAI	1395.4 +166.5	$4.00	Balanced −9% Summarise −34% Chat −15% Code gen −5% Agentic −41%
75	Solar Pro 4 Upstage	1386.2 +157.3	$0.525	Balanced −88% Summarise −90% Chat −89% Code gen −88% Agentic −92%
76	Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 Qwen	1384.1 +155.2	$0.143	Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −97%
77	GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai	1383.9 +155	$0.310	Balanced −93% Summarise −95% Chat −93% Code gen −92% Agentic −95%
78	GLM 4.6V Z.ai	1376.8 +147.9	$0.450	Balanced −90% Summarise −91% Chat −92% Code gen −91% Agentic −93%
79	GPT-4.1 OpenAI	1383 +154.1	$3.50	Balanced −20% Summarise −35% Chat −28% Code gen −22% Agentic −45%
80	DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek	1375 +146.1	$0.438	Balanced −90% Summarise −90% Chat −90% Code gen −90% Agentic −90%
81	GPT-5 Mini OpenAI	1373.2 +144.3	$0.688	Balanced −84% Summarise −90% Chat −84% Code gen −82% Agentic −90%
82	GPT-5.4 Nano OpenAI	1372.1 +143.2	$0.463	Balanced −89% Summarise −93% Chat −90% Code gen −88% Agentic −93%
83	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Qwen	1368.3 +139.4	$0.413	Balanced −91% Summarise −93% Chat −90% Code gen −89% Agentic −92%
84	gpt-oss-120b OpenAI	1365.4 +136.5	$0.065	Balanced −99% Summarise −99% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −99%
85	Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen	1366.6 +137.7	$0.796	Balanced −82% Summarise −82% Chat −82% Code gen −82% Agentic −82%
86	Nova 2 Lite Amazon	1361.8 +132.9	$0.850	Balanced −81% Summarise −86% Chat −79% Code gen −77% Agentic −83%
87	MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax	1359.3 +130.4	$0.521	Balanced −88% Summarise −90% Chat −89% Code gen −88% Agentic −92%
88	Gemma 3 27B Google	1357.8 +128.9	$0.100	Balanced −98% Summarise −97% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −97%
89	Mercury 2 Inception	1355.2 +126.3	$0.375	Balanced −91% Summarise −93% Chat −93% Code gen −92% Agentic −95%
90	GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai	1350.9 +122	$0.145	Balanced −97% Summarise −98% Chat −97% Code gen −96% Agentic −98%
91	o4 Mini OpenAI	1353.2 +124.3	$1.93	Balanced −56% Summarise −64% Chat −61% Code gen −57% Agentic −70%
92	MiniMax M1 MiniMax	1342.8 +113.9	$0.850	Balanced −81% Summarise −83% Chat −80% Code gen −79% Agentic −82%
93	Qwen3 32B Qwen	1340.1 +111.2	$0.130	Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −97%
94	Trinity Large Thinking Arcee	1340 +111.1	$0.388	Balanced −91% Summarise −92% Chat −92% Code gen −92% Agentic −94%
95	GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI	1340.4 +111.5	$0.700	Balanced −84% Summarise −87% Chat −86% Code gen −84% Agentic −89%
96	MiniMax M2 MiniMax	1339.9 +111	$0.525	Balanced −88% Summarise −91% Chat −89% Code gen −88% Agentic −92%
97	Gemma 3 12B Google	1334.2 +105.3	$0.075	Balanced −98% Summarise −98% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −98%
98	o3 Mini High OpenAI	1336.6 +107.7	$1.93	Balanced −56% Summarise −61% Chat −59% Code gen −57% Agentic −65%
99	DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek	1332.5 +103.6	$0.500	Balanced −89% Summarise −89% Chat −89% Code gen −89% Agentic −89%
100	GPT-5 Nano OpenAI	1320 +91.1	$0.138	Balanced −97% Summarise −98% Chat −97% Code gen −96% Agentic −98%
101	Granite 4.2 8B IBM	1317.8 +88.9	$0.108	Balanced −98% Summarise −98% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −98%
102	Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen	1316.6 +87.7	$0.215	Balanced −95% Summarise −95% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −95%
103	o3 Mini OpenAI	1319.4 +90.5	$1.93	Balanced −56% Summarise −61% Chat −59% Code gen −57% Agentic −65%
104	gpt-oss-20b OpenAI	1287.7 +58.8	$0.036	Balanced −99% Summarise −99% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −99%
105	GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) OpenAI	1286.4 +57.5	$0.263	Balanced −94% Summarise −95% Chat −94% Code gen −94% Agentic −95%
106	GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI	1284.8 +55.9	$0.175	Balanced −96% Summarise −97% Chat −96% Code gen −96% Agentic −97%
107	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta	1274.1 +45.2	$0.201	Balanced −95% Summarise −95% Chat −96% Code gen −96% Agentic −95%
108	GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI	1282.5 +53.6	$4.38	Balanced same price Summarise −12% Chat −7% Code gen −1% Agentic −21%
109	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Meta	1260.9 +32	$0.720	Balanced −84% Summarise −75% Chat −87% Code gen −90% Agentic −80%
110	Mistral Large 2407 Mistral	1266.1 +37.2	$3.00	Balanced −31% Summarise −41% Chat −44% Code gen −39% Agentic −58%
111	Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google	1480.2 +251.3	$1.99 summarise	Summarise −31% Chat −1% Agentic −33%
112	Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic	1457.8 +228.9	$2.83 summarise	Summarise −2% Agentic −12%
113	GPT-5.4 OpenAI	1452.2 +223.3	$2.48 summarise	Summarise −14% Agentic −16%
114	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	1446.3 +217.4	$1.99 summarise	Summarise −31% Chat −1% Agentic −33%
115	Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic	1438.6 +209.7	$2.83 summarise	Summarise −2% Agentic −12%
116	GPT-5.2 OpenAI	1412.3 +183.4	$1.91 summarise	Summarise −33% Agentic −27%
117	Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic	1339.1 +110.2	$2.83 summarise	Summarise −2% Agentic −12%

Alternatives with recorded capability losses 7

These improve score or price without worsening the other under the listed workloads, but reduce at least one recorded capability. Read the last column before switching.

Model	Intelligence	$/M	Holds under	Recorded capability loss
R1 DeepSeek	1372.7 +143.8	$1.15	Balanced −74% Summarise −73% Chat −74% Code gen −75% Agentic −73%	128K → 64K context
GLM 4.5V Z.ai	1332.8 +103.9	$0.900	Balanced −79% Summarise −82% Chat −83% Code gen −82% Agentic −87%	128K → 66K context
Gemma 3 4B Google	1290.8 +61.9	$0.063	Balanced −99% Summarise −98% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −98%	no tool use
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen	1269 +40.1	$0.370	Balanced −92% Summarise −87% Chat −93% Code gen −95% Agentic −90%	128K → 33K context
Mistral Small 3 Mistral	1233.6 tie	$0.058	Balanced −99% Summarise −98% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −98%	128K → 33K context no tool use
Gemma 2 27B Google	1231.3 tie	$0.650	Balanced −85% Summarise −77% Chat −88% Code gen −91% Agentic −82%	128K → 8K context 4K → 2K max output no tool use
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct Qwen	1230 tie	$0.745	Balanced −83% Summarise −76% Chat −86% Code gen −88% Agentic −80%	128K → 33K context no tool use

What this compares, and what it leaves out

Quality is LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset. The 95% confidence interval on a difference between two scores is about ±10.47 points, so a gap smaller than that is marked tie rather than an improvement — see significance bands.
204 further models at this delivery mode carry a price but no independent score. They are absent from the comparison in both directions — unrated is not a zero, and an unmeasured model is neither an alternative nor a worse buy.
Retired models are never offered as an alternative, and a model only competes against its own delivery mode: batch trades latency for price, so it is not a like-for-like swap.
Nothing here measures latency, throughput, rate limits or how a model behaves on your prompts. Two models with the same index score are not interchangeable.
Models with no higher-scoring or cheaper alternative that is no worse on the other axis are on the value frontier. Models with such an alternative are listed here.

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