Model comparison
Phi-4 vs Yi-Large
Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#279); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi-4 scores higher in 0 categories and Yi-Large in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.4% for Phi-4 and 47.2% for Yi-Large.
- Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Phi-4 | Yi-Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.2 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-11 | 2024-05-13 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.07 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Yi-Large leads
Phi-4: 34.4 (#239), Yi-Large: 36.7 (#203)
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 37.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.4% | 47.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1231 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi-4: 22.8 (#128), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 28.8% | — |
| BALROG | 11.6% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Phi-4: 17.7 (#291), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 47.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 45.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.42 | — |
| LiveBench | 41.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Phi-4: 20.8 (#285), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 13.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1246 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 64.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Phi-4: 32.6 (#209), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 84.8% | 79.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 29.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 3.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1203 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi-4: 37.2 (#237), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1197 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1212 | — |
| LMArena French | 1224 | — |
| LMArena German | 1222 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1158 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1151 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1234 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi-4: 60.4 (#251), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 58.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1201 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi-4: 36.9 (#226), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1217 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi-4: 40.5 (#244), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1217 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1182 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62.6% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1206 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi-4 better than Yi-Large?
Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#279); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Phi-4 or Yi-Large better for coding?
Yi-Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi-4 and Yi-Large share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-4 has 37 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.