Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Yi-Lightning

Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

37.1

Rank #209 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Yi-Lightning in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Yi-Lightning leads 36.2 to 14.8.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index29.537.1
Released2024-02-292024-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked4618

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Coding12641312
Aider Polyglot—12.9%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Yi-Lightning: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts12451302
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Yi-Lightning leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Math12731300
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Yi-Lightning leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Expert12231286
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Yi-Lightning: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English12581269
LMArena Chinese12481320
LMArena French12751305
LMArena German12581267
LMArena Japanese12041228
LMArena Korean11871192
LMArena Russian12801255
LMArena Spanish12461315

Instruction Following Yi-Lightning leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following12481278
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Yi-Lightning leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query12591297

Writing & Preference Yi-Lightning leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-Lightning
LMArena Text12621302
LMArena Creative Writing12351280
LMArena Multi-Turn12751311
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Yi-Lightning?

Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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