Command R+ vs Qwen2 72B Instruct Comparison

Comparing Command R+ and Qwen2 72B Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

6 benchmarks

Command R+ outperforms in 4 benchmarks (ARC-C, HellaSwag, TruthfulQA, Winogrande), while Qwen2 72B Instruct is better at 2 benchmarks (GSM8k, MMLU).

Command R+ shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Command R+
Input tokens$0.25
Output tokens$1.00
Best providerCohere
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

32.0B diff

Command R+ has 32.0B more parameters than Qwen2 72B Instruct, making it 44.4% larger.

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Command R+
104.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
72.0Bparameters
104.0B
Command R+
72.0B
Qwen2 72B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Command R+ specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Command R+ specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

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Command R+
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Command R+ is licensed under CC BY-NC, while Qwen2 72B Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

Command R+

CC BY-NC

Open weights

Qwen2 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Command R+ was released on 2024-08-30, while Qwen2 72B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Command R+ is 1 month newer than Qwen2 72B Instruct.

Command R+

Aug 30, 2024

1.5 years ago

1mo newer
Qwen2 72B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.6 years ago

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

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Higher ARC-C score (71.0% vs 68.9%)
Higher HellaSwag score (88.6% vs 87.6%)
Higher TruthfulQA score (56.3% vs 54.8%)
Higher Winogrande score (85.4% vs 85.1%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2 72B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Higher GSM8k score (91.1% vs 70.7%)
Higher MMLU score (82.3% vs 75.7%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
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Command R+
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct