Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct vs Yi-Lightning

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

37.1

Rank #209 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher in 7 categories and Yi-Lightning in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 42.5 to 27.4.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index43.037.1
Released2025-092024-12-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$2—
Results tracked2518

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Coding14401312
Aider Polyglot—12.9%

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts14281302
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.7%—

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Math14401300
Omni-MATH46.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Expert14171286
MMLU-Pro78.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)63%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English14071269
LMArena Chinese14601320
LMArena French14131305
LMArena German14171267
LMArena Japanese13951228
LMArena Korean13641192
LMArena Russian14041255
LMArena Spanish14351315

Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following13891278
IFEval81%—

Long Context Yi-Lightning leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query14031297
Fiction.LiveBench55.6%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Text14171302
LMArena Creative Writing13341280
LMArena Multi-Turn14161311
WildBench80.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better than Yi-Lightning?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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