Model comparison

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs StarCoder 2 15B

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#229); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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C4ai Aya Expanse 8b Cohere

34.9

Rank #229 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Side by side

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
C4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderCohereNVIDIA
Noometry Index34.938.1
Released—2024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked157

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Coding1160—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
HumanEval+—37.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Hard Prompts1156—
Epoch Capabilities Index—105
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Math1168—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.5%—
LMArena Expert1153—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Non-English1180—
LMArena Chinese1181—
LMArena German1188—
LMArena Japanese1120—
LMArena Russian1197—

Instruction Following Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Instruction Following1155—

Long Context Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Longer Query1191—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkC4ai Aya Expanse 8bStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Text1185—
LMArena Creative Writing1168—
LMArena Multi-Turn1160—

Frequently asked questions

Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than StarCoder 2 15B?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#229); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and StarCoder 2 15B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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