Model comparison

Kimi K3 vs Yi-Large

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #15 Confirmed

Yi-Large 01.AI

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Kimi K3 leads 61.0 to 36.7.
  • Kimi K3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Kimi K3 and Yi-Large specifications
Kimi K3Yi-Large
ProviderMoonshot AI01.AI
Noometry Index59.538.1
Released2026-07-162024-05-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output1.05M—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked533

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K3 leads

Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10), Yi-Large: 36.7 (#203)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
DeepSWE68.5%—
FrontierCode44.2%—
LMArena WebDev1654—
FrontierSWE25.9%—
SciCode59.5%—
WeirdML82.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.7%
LMArena Coding1508—
BigCodeBench Complete—47.2%
ALE-Bench1,524—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20), Yi-Large: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
APEX-Agents50.6%—
τ²-bench Banking37.1%—
PostTrainBench32%—
GBAEval48.3%—
GDP.pdf19%—
Vending-Bench 25,165—

Reasoning Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17), Yi-Large: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
SimpleBench60.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.6%—
ARC-AGI-194.5%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles39%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1496—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA52.7%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.45—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Not comparable

Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16), Yi-Large: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21), Yi-Large: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
GPQA Diamond93.1%—
SimpleQA Verified50.6%—
LMArena Expert1521—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70), Yi-Large: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
Blueprint-Bench 229.5%—
Furniture Assembly34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21), Yi-Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
LMArena Non-English1466—
LMArena Chinese1529—
LMArena French1491—
LMArena German1488—
LMArena Japanese1487—
LMArena Korean1458—
LMArena Russian1482—
LMArena Spanish1472—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14), Yi-Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
LMArena Instruction Following1483—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29), Yi-Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
LMArena Longer Query1494—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4), Yi-Large: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Yi-Large
LMArena Text1476—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2082—
EQ-Bench 41339—
LMArena Multi-Turn1488—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Yi-Large?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Kimi K3 or Yi-Large better for coding?

Kimi K3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 61.0 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K3 and Yi-Large share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K3 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.

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