Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Yi-Lightning

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

37.1

Rank #209 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-Lightning in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 25.9.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Yi-Lightning specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index58.237.1
Released2026-02-042024-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6818

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Coding15361312
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
Aider Polyglot—12.9%
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Yi-Lightning: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts15271302
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Expert15461286
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Yi-Lightning: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English14891269
LMArena Chinese15511320
LMArena French15131305
LMArena German15021267
LMArena Japanese14841228
LMArena Korean14641192
LMArena Russian14971255
LMArena Spanish15101315

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following15231278

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query15201297
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-Lightning
LMArena Text15031302
LMArena Creative Writing15051280
LMArena Multi-Turn15131311
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Yi-Lightning?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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