Model comparison
Qwen3 8B vs Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Yi-Lightning leads 25.9 to 16.6.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2025-04 | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.18 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Results tracked | 11 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| SciCode | 22.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1312 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78), Yi-Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 42.6% | — |
Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads
Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1302 |
| DTBench | 59.7% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.17 | — |
Math Yi-Lightning leads
Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1300 |
Knowledge Too close to call
Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1286 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3 8B: —, Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | 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
Qwen3 8B: —, Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1278 |
Long Context Yi-Lightning leads
Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.1% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen3 8B: —, Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1311 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3 8B better than Yi-Lightning?
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Qwen3 8B or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3 8B and Yi-Lightning share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.