# GPT-5.5 vs Yi-Lightning

> GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-5-vs-yi-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-Lightning in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 25.9.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 63.4 | 37.1 |
| Rank | 9 | 209 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $5 | — |
| Output $/M | $30 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)
- Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1494 | 1312 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.6% | — |
| DeepSWE | 67% | — |
| FrontierCode | 43% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1513 | — |
| SciCode | 56.1% | — |
| GSO | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 84.9% | — |
| MirrorCode | 10% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,943 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)
- Yi-Lightning: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 84.7% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 55.1% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 13% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 6.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 44.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 27.2% | — |
| ExploitBench | 47.4% | — |
| GBAEval | 53.2% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 26% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1242 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 7,524 | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)
- Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1489 | 1302 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 85% | — |
| SimpleBench | 69% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 96.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 95% | — |
| CritPt | 27.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 54% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 34.3% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 56% | — |
| DTBench | 96% | — |
| LMCA | 54.3% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 88.1% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.1 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |

## Math

- GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)
- Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1486 | 1300 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 85.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 72.5% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 94.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 51.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)
- Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1508 | 1286 |
| GPQA Diamond | 94% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 63% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)
- Yi-Lightning: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1297 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 36.2% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 44.2% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1486 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)
- Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1467 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1533 | 1320 |
| LMArena French | 1486 | 1305 |
| LMArena German | 1480 | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1498 | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | 1460 | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | 1473 | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1468 | 1315 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)
- Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1479 | 1278 |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)
- Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1484 | 1297 |
| CL-bench Life | 22.2% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)
- Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1472 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1455 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1476 | 1311 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1844 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1315 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.5 better than Yi-Lightning?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-5.5 or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.