Model comparison
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs Magistral Medium
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.9 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher in 2 categories and Magistral Medium in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads 22.4 to 8.6.
Side by side
| C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.9 | 35.2 |
| Released | — | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 15 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1160 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
Reasoning C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
Math Magistral Medium leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1168 | 1250 |
Knowledge Too close to call
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | 1223 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | — |
Multilingual Magistral Medium leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1180 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1181 | 1227 |
| LMArena German | 1188 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1120 | 1175 |
| LMArena Russian | 1197 | 1224 |
| LMArena French | — | 1267 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1125 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1271 |
Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | 1254 |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | 1275 |
Frequently asked questions
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than Magistral Medium?
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.9 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Magistral Medium share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.