Aya 23 8B
Aya 23 8B is a released coding and classification model with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding and classification
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Aya
- Released
- 2024-02-21
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0Commercial use: non-commercial
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Aya-23-8B is a multilingual large language model developed by Cohere For AI, featuring 8 billion parameters. As an instruction-fine-tuned model, it is adept at following instructions and is optimized for text generation and understanding. The model employs a decoder-only Transformer architecture, utilizing enhancements like parallel attention and feed-forward layers for efficiency. It supports 23 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, and French, and is proficient in tasks such as machine translation, chatbot interactions, and text summarization. Despite its capabilities, its performance might vary across languages, particularly those with less linguistic resources, and it has a context length limit of 8192 tokens. Training involved diverse data sources like human annotations and synthetic datasets to bolster its multilingual proficiency.
Aya 23 8B is an open-weight model in the Aya family. Headline tracked benchmarks include Google-Proof Q&A 45.2, HellaSwag 87.3, and HumanEval 68.5.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Classification
2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(4)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 45.2 | diamondObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HellaSwag | 87.3 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HumanEval | 68.5 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 72.8 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
Frequently asked questions
When was Aya 23 8B released?
Aya 23 8B was released on 2024-02-21.
What benchmarks has Aya 23 8B been tested on?
Aya 23 8B has been evaluated on 4 benchmarks, including Google-Proof Q&A, HellaSwag, HumanEval, Massive Multitask Language Understanding.