# Codestral vs Yi-Large

> Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#287); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codestral-vs-yi-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 0 categories and Yi-Large in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Yi-Large leads 36.1 to 26.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 52.5% for Codestral and 47.2% for Yi-Large.
- Codestral has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codestral | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.1 | 37.6 |
| Rank | 287 | — |
| Context | 256K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.90 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codestral: 26.9 (#316)
- Yi-Large: 36.1 (#201)

| Benchmark | Codestral | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | 37.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | 47.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codestral: 19.1 (#244)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Codestral | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Codestral: —
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Codestral | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | — | 79.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Codestral better than Yi-Large?

Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#287); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Codestral or Yi-Large better for coding?

Yi-Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.1 versus 26.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codestral and Yi-Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.