Head-to-head comparison
aya expanse 32b (CohereLabs) and tiny aya global (CohereLabs) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 17 August 2026
As of 17 August 2026, aya expanse 32b holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#128 vs #219).
Evidence: global corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated · 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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aya expanse 32b ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #128 against #219. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.
Both publish a —-token context window.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
aya expanse 32b: Gated access. tiny aya global: Gated access. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for aya expanse 32b and 0 for tiny aya global, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.