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Command R+ (08-2024) vs Mistral Nemo

A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.

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Command R+ (08-2024) specs · Mistral Nemo specs
Verdict by category
  • PriceCommand R+ (08-2024)

    Command R+ (08-2024) publishes pricing ($10.00 / 1M output tokens) while Mistral Nemo does not.

  • Context windowTie

    Both ship a 128K-token context window.

  • BenchmarksTie

    No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.

  • ModalitiesTie

    Both handle text.

  • OpennessTie

    Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

On balance Command R+ (08-2024) edges ahead, winning 1 of 5 categories against Mistral Nemo's 0. Command R+ (08-2024) publishes pricing ($10.00 / 1M output tokens) while Mistral Nemo does not. Both ship a 128K-token context window.

No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. Both target the same set of modalities (text), so the deciding factors are price, context, and raw quality. Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

Command R+ (08-2024) is the newer of the two, released 1 months after Mistral Nemo, which usually means a more recent knowledge cutoff and updated safety post-training. Command R+ (08-2024) is usually picked for rag and data extraction workloads, while Mistral Nemo sees more deployments in edge deployment and local llm. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.

Side-by-side specs

SpecCommand R+ (08-2024)Mistral Nemo
ProviderCohereMistral
ReleasedAug 2024Jul 2024
Modalitiestexttext
Context window128K tokens128K tokens
Max output,,
Input · 1M$2.50 / 1M tokensPricing not published
Output · 1M$10.00 / 1M tokensPricing not published
Knowledge cutoff,,
Open weightsYes (CC-BY-NC 4.0)Yes (Apache-2.0)
API availableYesYes

Pricing at scale

What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day$22.50 vs ,
  • Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day$225 vs ,
  • RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day$435 vs ,

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).

Price calculator

Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Command R+ (08-2024)$0.750
  • Mistral NemoPricing unavailable

Benchmarks compared

Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.

Command R+ (08-2024)Mistral Nemo
  • MMLU75.7
Pick Command R+ (08-2024) if

Command R+ (08-2024) fits when…

  • RAG-tuned
  • Citation generation
  • Enterprise tooling
Pick Mistral Nemo if

Mistral Nemo fits when…

  • Apache-2.0
  • Single-GPU fit
  • Multilingual
Don't want either?

Consider Command R

Cohere's mid-tier RAG-optimized model, affordable and reliable on retrieval workloads.

See Command R specsCommand R+ (08-2024) vs Command RMistral Nemo vs Command R

Frequently asked

  • Is Command R+ (08-2024) or Mistral Nemo cheaper?
    Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.
  • Which has the larger context window?
    Both Command R+ (08-2024) and Mistral Nemo ship a 128K-token context window.
  • Is Command R+ (08-2024) or Mistral Nemo better for coding?
    Both Command R+ (08-2024) and Mistral Nemo are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.
  • Are either of these models open source?
    Both ship with open weights. Command R+ (08-2024) is licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0; Mistral Nemo under Apache-2.0.
  • When were Command R+ (08-2024) and Mistral Nemo released?
    Command R+ (08-2024) was released by Cohere on 2024-08-30. Mistral Nemo was released by Mistral on 2024-07-18.
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