Model comparison
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs Gemini 3 Deep Think
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#229); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
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GoogleSummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 22.4.
- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 34.9 | 58.3 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 15 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1160 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14)
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 84.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 96% |
| CritPt | — | 25.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | — |
Math Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1168 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Gemini 3 Deep Think |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than Gemini 3 Deep Think?
C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#229); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Gemini 3 Deep Think share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3.