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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Yi-Lightning

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

37.1

Rank #209 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Yi-Lightning in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.5 to 27.4.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index37.037.1
Released2025-06-172024-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3318

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Coding13731312
Aider Polyglot—12.9%
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Yi-Lightning: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts13771302
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Math13731300
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Yi-Lightning leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Expert13731286
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Yi-Lightning: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English13691269
LMArena Chinese14041320
LMArena French13881305
LMArena German13891267
LMArena Japanese13591228
LMArena Korean13601192
LMArena Russian13731255
LMArena Spanish13961315

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following13671278
IFEval81%—

Long Context Yi-Lightning leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query13731297
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Text13791302
LMArena Creative Writing13671280
LMArena Multi-Turn13661311
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Yi-Lightning?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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