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Command R vs Gemini 2.5 Pro: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

Command R is significantly cheaper at $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens vs $1.25/$10.00. Gemini 2.5 Pro is stronger for coding with a coding ELO of 1350 vs 1100. Gemini 2.5 Pro ranks higher overall with an Arena ELO of 1340 vs 1140. Gemini 2.5 Pro offers a larger 1049K context window vs 128K.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureCommand RGemini 2.5 Pro
ProviderCohereGoogle
Input Price / 1M tokens$0.150$1.25
Output Price / 1M tokens$0.600$10.00
Context Window128K1.048576M
Max Output Tokens4,09665,536
Arena ELO1,1401,340
Coding ELO1,1001,350
TTFT (ms)250400
Tokens/sec8570
MultimodalNoYes
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionNoYes
When to Use Command R

Choose Command R when you need: very affordable pricing, good rag and grounding capabilities, strong multilingual support, 128k context window. It excels at rag, chatbots, cost-sensitive, multilingual tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two.

Strengths:

  • Very affordable pricing
  • Good RAG and grounding capabilities
  • Strong multilingual support
  • 128K context window

Best for:

ragchatbotscost-sensitivemultilingual
When to Use Gemini 2.5 Pro

Choose Gemini 2.5 Pro when you need: 1m token context window, excellent reasoning capabilities, strong coding performance, native multimodal support. It excels at coding, reasoning, long-context, multimodal tasks. Its 1049K context window is larger, making it better for long-document processing.

Strengths:

  • 1M token context window
  • Excellent reasoning capabilities
  • Strong coding performance
  • Native multimodal support

Best for:

codingreasoninglong-contextmultimodal

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