Model comparison
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 34.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 22.4.
- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 34.9 | 63.4 |
| Released | — | 2026-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $30 |
| Results tracked | 15 | 71 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1160 | 1494 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 80.6% |
| DeepSWE | — | 67% |
| FrontierCode | — | 43% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1513 |
| SciCode | — | 56.1% |
| GSO | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 84.9% |
| MirrorCode | — | 10% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,943 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 84.7% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 55.1% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 13% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 6.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 44.6% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 54% |
| PostTrainBench | — | 27.2% |
| ExploitBench | — | 47.4% |
| GBAEval | — | 53.2% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 26% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1242 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 7,524 |
Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | 1489 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 85% |
| SimpleBench | — | 69% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 88.8% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 96.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 95% |
| CritPt | — | 27.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 54% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 34.3% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 56% |
| DTBench | — | 96% |
| LMCA | — | 54.3% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 88.1% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 159.1 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.6 |
Math GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1168 | 1486 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 85.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 72.5% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 94.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 100% |
| ProofBench | — | 50% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 51.7% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 0% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 35.4% |
Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | 1508 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 94% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 63% |
Multimodal Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —, GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1297 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 36.2% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 44.2% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1486 |
Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1180 | 1467 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1181 | 1533 |
| LMArena German | 1188 | 1480 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1120 | 1498 |
| LMArena Russian | 1197 | 1473 |
| LMArena French | — | 1486 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1460 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1468 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253), GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | 1479 |
Long Context GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | 1484 |
| CL-bench Life | — | 22.2% |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | 1472 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | 1455 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | 1476 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1844 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1315 |
Frequently asked questions
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than GPT-5.5?
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 34.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or GPT-5.5 better for coding?
GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and GPT-5.5 share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.