Model comparison
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.9 vs 35.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher in 3 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 60.1.
- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 34.9 | 35.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 15 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1160 | 1350 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | 1346 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| DTBench | — | 63.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1168 | 1352 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | 1339 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| MMLU | — | 79.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1180 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1181 | 1373 |
| LMArena German | 1188 | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1120 | 1294 |
| LMArena Russian | 1197 | 1351 |
| LMArena French | — | 1391 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1363 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | 1340 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.9 vs 35.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.