Aya Expanse 8B
Multilingual 8B model covering 23 languages — research/non-commercial license.
About
Aya Expanse 8B is Cohere Labs' multilingual language model covering 23 languages (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PT, JA, KO, ZH, AR, EL, FA, PL, ID, CS, HE, HI, NL, RO, RU, TR, UK, VI), released Oct 2024. Weights are downloadable from Hugging Face but gated (request access, agree to non-commercial use) and licensed CC-BY-NC-4.0 — research and non-commercial use only. It is not open source and must not be described as such. For commercial multilingual use, Cohere's paid API models are the intended path.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported (Cohere Labs): win-rate charts in the model repo show Aya Expanse 8B beating comparable multilingual baselines across languages on Dolly-style and arena-hard-style evaluations — provider-reported, not independently re-verified.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: HF: CohereLabs/aya-expanse-8b; HF downloads 20,832 (peer-normalized); released 720 days ago. Manual review: 23-language coverage from Cohere Labs; 2024-era, superseded; commercial use requires Cohere paid API. License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 — research/non-commercial ONLY, gated download; describe as 'open weights', never 'open source'.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.6/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 5.8/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · HF: CohereLabs/aya-expanse-8b
- · HF downloads 20,832 (peer-normalized)
- · released 720 days ago
- · manual review: 23-language coverage from Cohere Labs; 2024-era, superseded; commercial use requires Cohere paid API