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Aya Expanse 8B vs Mistral Nemo

A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.

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Aya Expanse 8B specs · Mistral Nemo specs
Verdict by category
  • PriceTie

    Neither model publishes per-token API pricing.

  • Context windowMistral Nemo

    Mistral Nemo accepts 128K tokens vs 8.2K, 15.6× the room for long documents and codebases.

  • BenchmarksTie

    No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.

  • ModalitiesTie

    Both handle text.

  • OpennessTie

    Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

On balance Mistral Nemo edges ahead, winning 1 of 5 categories against Aya Expanse 8B's 0. Neither model publishes per-token API pricing. Mistral Nemo accepts 128K tokens vs 8.2K, 15.6× the room for long documents and codebases.

No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. Both target the same set of modalities (text), so the deciding factors are price, context, and raw quality. Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

Aya Expanse 8B is the newer of the two, released 3 months after Mistral Nemo, which usually means a more recent knowledge cutoff and updated safety post-training. Aya Expanse 8B is usually picked for multilingual and translation workloads, while Mistral Nemo sees more deployments in edge deployment and local llm. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.

Side-by-side specs

SpecAya Expanse 8BMistral Nemo
ProviderCohereMistral
ReleasedOct 2024Jul 2024
Modalitiestexttext
Context window8.2K tokens128K tokens
Max output,,
Input · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Output · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Knowledge cutoff,,
Open weightsYes (CC-BY-NC 4.0)Yes (Apache-2.0)
API availableYesYes

Pricing at scale

What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day, vs ,
  • Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day, vs ,
  • RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day, vs ,

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).

Price calculator

Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Aya Expanse 8BPricing unavailable
  • Mistral NemoPricing unavailable

Benchmarks compared

Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.
Pick Aya Expanse 8B if

Aya Expanse 8B fits when…

  • Multilingual at small size
  • Strong cross-lingual transfer
  • Efficient on commodity GPUs
Pick Mistral Nemo if

Mistral Nemo fits when…

  • Apache-2.0
  • Single-GPU fit
  • Multilingual
  • Long-context tasks, handles 128K tokens vs 8.2K for Aya Expanse 8B.
Don't want either?

Consider Command R+ (08-2024)

Cohere's flagship optimized for RAG and tool use in enterprise settings.

See Command R+ (08-2024) specsAya Expanse 8B vs Command R+ (08-2024)Mistral Nemo vs Command R+ (08-2024)

Frequently asked

  • Is Aya Expanse 8B or Mistral Nemo cheaper?
    Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.
  • Which has the larger context window?
    Mistral Nemo accepts 128K tokens vs 8.2K for Aya Expanse 8B.
  • Is Aya Expanse 8B or Mistral Nemo better for coding?
    Both Aya Expanse 8B and Mistral Nemo are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.
  • Are either of these models open source?
    Both ship with open weights. Aya Expanse 8B is licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0; Mistral Nemo under Apache-2.0.
  • When were Aya Expanse 8B and Mistral Nemo released?
    Aya Expanse 8B was released by Cohere on 2024-10-23. Mistral Nemo was released by Mistral on 2024-07-18.
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