Model comparison

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b Cohere

34.9

Rank #229 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads 60.1 to 47.7.

Side by side

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
C4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderCohereMicrosoft
Noometry Index34.927.9
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked1535

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Category by category

Coding C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding11601093
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11561072
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math11681111
LiveBench Math—15.7%

Knowledge C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert11531045
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multilingual C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English11801021
LMArena Chinese11811021
LMArena German11881044
LMArena Japanese1120935
LMArena Russian11971022
LMArena French—1076
LMArena Korean—905
LMArena Spanish—1085

Instruction Following C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11551053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11911044

Writing & Preference C4ai Aya Expanse 8b leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text11851073
LMArena Creative Writing11681037
LMArena Multi-Turn11601018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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