Model comparison
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs Codestral
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads 33.2 to 26.9.
- Codestral accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 8K.
Side by side
| C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.3 | 30.1 |
| Released | 2024-10-24 | 2024-05-29 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | 256K |
| Max output | 4K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 15 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.2 (#252), Codestral: 26.9 (#316)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 11.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 41.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1161 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 73.8% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.9% |
Reasoning C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 21.4 (#198), Codestral: 19.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | — |
Math Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 30.8 (#204), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1168 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.0 (#197), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.3 (#237), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1180 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1181 | — |
| LMArena German | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1120 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1197 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.4 (#248), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#231), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1192 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.2 (#245), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than Codestral?
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or Codestral better for coding?
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 26.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Codestral does, with 256K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Codestral share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.