Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs C4ai Aya Expanse 8b

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b Cohere

34.9

Rank #229 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and C4ai Aya Expanse 8b in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads 33.6 to 26.3.
  • C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
ProviderAmazonCohere
Noometry Index31.934.9
Released2024-12-03—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3415

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Category by category

Coding C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Coding12391160
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Hard Prompts12201156
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LiveBench36.4%—

Math C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Math12271168
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%9.5%
LMArena Expert12011153
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Non-English12081180
LMArena Chinese12251181
LMArena German12291188
LMArena Japanese11531120
LMArena Russian12161197
LMArena French1237—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Instruction Following12051155
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Longer Query12341191

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteC4ai Aya Expanse 8b
LMArena Text12291185
LMArena Creative Writing11971168
LMArena Multi-Turn11991160
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than C4ai Aya Expanse 8b?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better for coding?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and C4ai Aya Expanse 8b share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15.

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