# C4ai Aya Expanse 32b vs StarCoder 2 3B

> C4ai Aya Expanse 32b has enough public results to be ranked (#216); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/c4ai-aya-expanse-32b-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 35.3 | 35.8 |
| Rank | 216 | — |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 34.3 (#227)
- StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1197 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |

## Reasoning

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 22.3 (#183)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1193 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 88.01 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 31.4 (#195)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1200 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |

## Knowledge

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 32.6 (#202)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1182 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |

## Multilingual

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 38.5 (#225)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1213 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1210 | — |
| LMArena French | 1247 | — |
| LMArena German | 1199 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1163 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1158 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1193 | — |

## Instruction Following

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 62.9 (#232)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1196 | — |

## Long Context

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 37.2 (#215)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1228 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- C4ai Aya Expanse 32b: 42.4 (#230)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1224 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | — |

## FAQ

### Is C4ai Aya Expanse 32b better than StarCoder 2 3B?

C4ai Aya Expanse 32b has enough public results to be ranked (#216); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is C4ai Aya Expanse 32b or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

C4ai Aya Expanse 32b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 32b and StarCoder 2 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 32b has 18 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.