Command R+ vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Command R+ is meaningfully stronger at coding (60 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (90 vs 5).
- •Command R+ is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Command R+ | Mistral OCR 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓128K tokens | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$2.50 | 4000 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | 4000 |
| Release date | 2024-08 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Command R+ | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| RAG (BEIR) | Top-5 | - |
| MMLU | ~75% | - |
| OlmOCRBench | - | 85.20 |
| OmniDocBench | - | 93.07 |
| Human preference (head-to-head) | - | 72% win rate |
| Human evaluation (blind) | - | 72% |
| Human Evaluation (Blind Test) | - | 72% win rate |
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 Mistral OCR 4 if...
- →You need to convert PDFs, scans, or office docs into structured text/Markdown
- →You require high-accuracy multilingual document parsing at low cost
- →You need tables, equations, and layout preserved with confidence scores
- →You must keep documents in-house (self-hosted deployment)