# C4ai Aya Expanse 8b vs DeepSeek Coder 33B

> C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#227); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/c4ai-aya-expanse-8b-vs-deepseek-coder-33b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 33.2.

## Snapshot

| | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 34.3 | 38.3 |
| Rank | 227 | — |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.2 (#252)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42% |
| LMArena Coding | 1161 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 51.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75% |
| MBPP+ | — | 70.1% |

## Reasoning

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 21.4 (#198)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1156 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 95.74 |
| WinoGrande | — | 62% |

## Math

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 30.8 (#204)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1168 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 35.4% |

## Knowledge

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 33.0 (#197)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1153 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.2% |
| MMLU | — | 39.4% |

## Multilingual

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.3 (#237)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1180 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1181 | — |
| LMArena German | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1120 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1197 | — |

## Instruction Following

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 60.4 (#248)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1155 | — |

## Long Context

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 36.1 (#231)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1192 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- C4ai Aya Expanse 8b: 39.2 (#245)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | — |

## FAQ

### Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b better than DeepSeek Coder 33B?

C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#227); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is C4ai Aya Expanse 8b or DeepSeek Coder 33B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do C4ai Aya Expanse 8b and DeepSeek Coder 33B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. C4ai Aya Expanse 8b has 15 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9.