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Aya Expanse 8B

AI model Released

Context window
8,000 tokens
Maximum output
4,000 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Aya Expanse 8B 1185.1 Aya Expanse 8B · 95% interval 1178.2–1192.0 · 9,818 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,180.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,157.59 – 1,204.16

618 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,160.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,145.80 – 1,174.66

1567 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,167.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,152.82 – 1,182.68

1528 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,190.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.10 – 1,199.48

5497 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,052.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,040.94 – 1,064.13

6336 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,152.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,128.93 – 1,175.83

600 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,187.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,150.37 – 1,224.89

240 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,155.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,144.57 – 1,167.04

2576 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,153.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,139.50 – 1,168.14

1620 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,176.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,158.33 – 1,194.13

1096 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,149.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,136.12 – 1,163.46

1784 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,224.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,200.01 – 1,249.80

551 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,203.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,189.36 – 1,217.93

1689 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,176.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,160.41 – 1,192.43

1146 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,202.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,176.06 – 1,229.79

470 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,176.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,164.87 – 1,188.52

2471 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,185.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,174.24 – 1,196.61

2746 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,154.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,145.18 – 1,164.21

4006 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,120.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,084.80 – 1,156.06

231 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,191.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,176.39 – 1,205.83

1483 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,168.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,153.02 – 1,183.16

1307 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,159.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,145.24 – 1,173.97

1746 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,179.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,170.77 – 1,189.03

4321 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,185.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,178.17 – 1,192.01

9818 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,197.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.42 – 1,211.81

1474 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Aya Expanse 8B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,180.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,157.63 – 1,204.20

618 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,160.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,145.90 – 1,174.77

1567 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,167.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,152.98 – 1,182.84

1528 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,190.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.05 – 1,199.43

5497 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,052.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,040.95 – 1,064.14

6336 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,152.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,128.96 – 1,175.87

600 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,187.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,150.39 – 1,224.87

240 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,155.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,144.56 – 1,167.03

2576 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,153.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,139.38 – 1,168.03

1620 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,176.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,158.36 – 1,194.17

1096 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,149.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,136.18 – 1,163.52

1784 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,224.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,199.75 – 1,249.55

551 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,203.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,189.34 – 1,217.91

1689 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,176.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,160.41 – 1,192.42

1146 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,202.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,176.11 – 1,229.86

470 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,176.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,164.95 – 1,188.61

2471 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,185.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,174.30 – 1,196.68

2746 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,154.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,145.19 – 1,164.22

4006 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,120.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,084.66 – 1,155.86

231 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,191.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,176.44 – 1,205.87

1483 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,168.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,152.98 – 1,183.12

1307 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,159.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,145.23 – 1,173.97

1746 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,179.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,170.86 – 1,189.12

4321 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,185.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,178.16 – 1,191.99

9818 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Aya Expanse 8B

1,197.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.57 – 1,211.96

1474 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Aya Expanse 8B

15.0 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 8.03 B stored tensor elements · F16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

Capabilities

Context window
8,000 tokens
Maximum output
4,000 tokens
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
No
Open weights
Yes
Model license
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Checkpoint tensor payload
14.95 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text