Head-to-head comparison
Command R+ (08-2024) (Cohere) and Voxtral Small 24B 2507 (Mistral AI) 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 18 August 2026
As of 18 August 2026, Command R+ (08-2024) holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#194 vs #229); Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is 33.3× cheaper per output token ($0.30/1M vs $10.00/1M); Command R+ (08-2024) offers the longer context window (128K vs 32K tokens); and Voxtral Small 24B 2507 ships open weights.
Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated. 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 18 August 2026: #194 against #229. 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.
Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is cheaper on output tokens: $0.30/1M against $10.00/1M. Input tokens are $2.50/1M for Command R+ (08-2024) and $0.10/1M for Voxtral Small 24B 2507. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Command R+ (08-2024) has the larger context window: 128K tokens against 32K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Command R+ (08-2024): API only. Voxtral Small 24B 2507: Open weights. 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 Command R+ (08-2024) and 1 for Voxtral Small 24B 2507, 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 18 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.