Command R+ vs GPT-5.5
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Command R+ is meaningfully stronger at speed (72 vs 62 on our capability index).
- •GPT-5.5 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (85 vs 5).
- •Command R+ is 50% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Command R+ has a 128K tokens context window vs 1,050,000 tokens (128,000 max output) - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Command R+ | GPT-5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓128K tokens | 1,050,000 tokens (128,000 max output) |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$2.50 | $5.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | $30.00 |
| Release date | 2024-08 | 2026-04 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Command R+ | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| RAG (BEIR) | Top-5 | - |
| MMLU | ~75% | - |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 82.6% |
| SWE-bench Pro | - | 58.6% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Command R+ if...
- →Your core use case is grounded RAG with citations
- →You need reliable multi-step tool/agent orchestration
- →You want an enterprise model available on Bedrock
- →You need multilingual responses across the 10 optimized languages
Choose GPT-5.5 if...
- →Complex professional coding, data analysis, and multi-tool agentic workflows
- →Long-document or large-codebase tasks needing a 1M+ context window
- →You want OpenAI's recommended default frontier model for new projects