Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Yi-Lightning

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

37.1

Rank #209 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 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 GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 25.9.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Yi-Lightning specifications
GPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
ProviderOpenAI01.AI
Noometry Index54.137.1
Released2025-12-112024-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked6718

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Coding14471312
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
Aider Polyglot—12.9%
LMArena WebDev1416—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), Yi-Lightning: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts14451302
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA43.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45—
ForecastBench60.1—

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Expert14451286
GPQA Diamond91.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), Yi-Lightning: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English14251269
LMArena Chinese14601320
LMArena French14551305
LMArena German14481267
LMArena Japanese14201228
LMArena Korean13921192
LMArena Russian14401255
LMArena Spanish14331315

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following14171278

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query14281297
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Yi-Lightning
LMArena Text14391302
LMArena Creative Writing14011280
LMArena Multi-Turn14581311
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Yi-Lightning?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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