Model comparison
Granite 4.0 H Small vs Yi-Lightning
Granite 4.0 H Small and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 2 categories and Yi-Lightning in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 36.4 to 27.4.
- Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 37.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 19 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1249 | 1312 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | 1302 |
Math Yi-Lightning leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1247 | 1300 |
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | — |
Knowledge Yi-Lightning leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1251 | 1286 |
| MMLU-Pro | 56.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
Multilingual Yi-Lightning leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1249 | 1320 |
| LMArena Russian | 1201 | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | 1315 |
| LMArena French | — | 1305 |
| LMArena German | — | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1192 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1222 | 1278 |
| IFEval | 89% | — |
Long Context Yi-Lightning leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1242 | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Yi-Lightning leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1211 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1242 | 1311 |
| WildBench | 73.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Yi-Lightning?
Granite 4.0 H Small and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.4 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Yi-Lightning share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.