Claude 3 Opus vs Command R+ Comparison

Comparing Claude 3 Opus and Command R+ across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus outperforms in 4 benchmarks (ARC-C, GSM8k, HellaSwag, MMLU), while Command R+ is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Command R+ costs less

For input processing, Claude 3 Opus ($15.00/1M tokens) is 60.0x more expensive than Command R+ ($0.25/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3 Opus ($75.00/1M tokens) is 75.0x more expensive than Command R+ ($1.00/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3 Opus is more expensive than Command R+.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3 Opus

Input tokens$15.00

Output tokens$75.00

Best providerAnthropic

Command R+

Input tokens$0.25

Output tokens$1.00

Best providerCohere

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3 Opus accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Command R+'s 128,000 tokens. Claude 3 Opus can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Command R+ is limited to 128,000 tokens.

Claude 3 Opus

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Command R+

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs, whereas Command R+ does not.

Claude 3 Opus can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3 Opus

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Command R+

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Opus is licensed under a proprietary license, while Command R+ uses CC BY-NC.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3 Opus

Proprietary

Closed source

Command R+

CC BY-NC

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-02-29, while Command R+ was released on 2024-08-30.

Command R+ is 6 months newer than Claude 3 Opus.

Claude 3 Opus

Feb 29, 2024

2.1 years ago

Command R+

Aug 30, 2024

1.6 years ago

6mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Provider Availability

Claude 3 Opus is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. Command R+ is available from Cohere, Bedrock. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.