Model comparison
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs Qwen3 14B
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Qwen3 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.9 vs 35.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 14B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 14B leads 39.3 to 33.6.
Side by side
| C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.9 | 35.5 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 15 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 14B leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1160 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |
Reasoning C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | — |
| DTBench | — | 64% |
| LMCA | — | 18.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.23 |
Math Qwen3 14B leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1168 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | 5.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 63.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1180 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1181 | — |
| LMArena German | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1120 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1197 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 14B leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than Qwen3 14B?
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Qwen3 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.9 vs 35.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or Qwen3 14B better for coding?
Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Qwen3 14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.