Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Yi-Lightning leads 25.9 to 6.8.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1312 |
Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1302 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1300 |
Knowledge Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1286 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1320 |
| LMArena French | — | 1305 |
| LMArena German | — | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1315 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1278 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1311 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Yi-Lightning?
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Small or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Yi-Lightning share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.