# C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs DeepSeek Coder 1.3B

> C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#229); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/c4ai-aya-expanse-8b-vs-deepseek-coder-1-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 34.9 | 35.0 |
| Rank | 229 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.8 (#252)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 22.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1160 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 29.6% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 60.4% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |

## Reasoning

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 22.4 (#197)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 63.6 |
| WinoGrande | — | 53.3% |

## Math

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.3 (#203)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1168 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 4.4% |

## Knowledge

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.6 (#201)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 25.4% |
| MMLU | — | 25.8% |

## Multilingual

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#242)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1180 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1181 | — |
| LMArena German | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1120 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1197 | — |

## Instruction Following

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.1 (#253)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | — |

## Long Context

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#236)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.0 (#250)
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | — |

## FAQ

### Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than DeepSeek Coder 1.3B?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#229); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better for coding?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and DeepSeek Coder 1.3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9.