# o1-mini vs Yi-Lightning

> Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-yi-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 3 categories and Yi-Lightning in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Yi-Lightning leads 25.9 to 8.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 32.9% for o1-mini and 12.9% for Yi-Lightning.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 37.1 |
| Rank | 235 | 209 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
- Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | 12.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1312 |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
- Yi-Lightning: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
- Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1302 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |

## Math

- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
- Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1300 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
- Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1286 |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
- Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1320 |
| LMArena French | 1293 | 1305 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | 1315 |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
- Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1278 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
- Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1297 |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
- Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1311 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Yi-Lightning?

Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Yi-Lightning share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.