Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Yi-Lightning

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #9 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

36.5

Rank #206 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-Lightning in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.2 to 33.5.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Yi-Lightning specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index60.736.5
Released2026-05-282024-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6518

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), Yi-Lightning: 27.0 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Coding14911313
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
Aider Polyglot—12.9%
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10), Yi-Lightning: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.6 (#14), Yi-Lightning: 24.9 (#137)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts14811302
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.3—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), Yi-Lightning: 33.5 (#173)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), Yi-Lightning: 34.8 (#182)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Expert15011286
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), Yi-Lightning: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), Yi-Lightning: 42.4 (#191)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English14501269
LMArena Chinese15091320
LMArena French14821304
LMArena German14701267
LMArena Japanese14401228
LMArena Korean14321192
LMArena Russian14761255
LMArena Spanish14701315

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), Yi-Lightning: 67.6 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following14761278

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#176)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query14821297

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), Yi-Lightning: 50.4 (#178)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-Lightning
LMArena Text14601302
LMArena Creative Writing14531280
LMArena Multi-Turn14761311
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Yi-Lightning?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.2 versus 27.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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