# Claude 3 Opus vs Yi-Lightning

> Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-yi-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Yi-Lightning in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Yi-Lightning leads 33.5 to 13.9.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 300 | 206 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261)
- Yi-Lightning: 27.0 (#315)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1313 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110)
- Yi-Lightning: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318)
- Yi-Lightning: 24.9 (#137)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1302 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293)
- Yi-Lightning: 33.5 (#173)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1300 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262)
- Yi-Lightning: 34.8 (#182)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1286 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112)
- Yi-Lightning: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202)
- Yi-Lightning: 42.4 (#191)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1320 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | 1304 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1315 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223)
- Yi-Lightning: 67.6 (#191)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1278 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197)
- Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#176)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1297 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208)
- Yi-Lightning: 50.4 (#178)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1311 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than Yi-Lightning?

Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Opus or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 27.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.