Model comparison

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 34.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b Cohere

34.9

Rank #229 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1 leads 55.6 to 39.0.
  • C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and o1 specifications
C4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
ProviderCohereOpenAI
Noometry Index34.940.9
Released—2024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked1552

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Coding11601367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Hard Prompts11561371
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
LiveBench—75.7%

Math o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Math11681388
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Expert11531361
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Non-English11801358
LMArena Chinese11811394
LMArena German11881337
LMArena Japanese11201346
LMArena Russian11971356
LMArena French—1344
LMArena Korean—1396
LMArena Spanish—1345

Instruction Following o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Instruction Following11551367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Longer Query11911378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bo1
LMArena Text11851366
LMArena Creative Writing11681348
LMArena Multi-Turn11601369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 34.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and o1 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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