Head-to-head comparison
Nova Micro 1.0 (Amazon) and Command R (08-2024) (Cohere) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 17 August 2026
As of 17 August 2026, Command R (08-2024) holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#199 vs #200); and Nova Micro 1.0 is 4.3× cheaper per output token ($0.14/1M vs $0.60/1M).
Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Command R (08-2024) ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #199 against #200. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
Nova Micro 1.0 is cheaper on output tokens: $0.14/1M against $0.60/1M. Input tokens are $0.035/1M for Nova Micro 1.0 and $0.15/1M for Command R (08-2024). Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Both publish a 128K-token context window.
Arena coding: Nova Micro 1.0 1289, Command R (08-2024) 1281 — Nova Micro 1.0 leads.
Nova Micro 1.0: API only. Command R (08-2024): API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Nova Micro 1.0 and 1 for Command R (08-2024), from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.