# Qwen3 235B-A22B vs Yi-Lightning

> Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-235b-a22b-vs-yi-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 235B-A22B 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 235B-A22B leads 43.8 to 27.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 59.6% for Qwen3 235B-A22B and 12.9% for Yi-Lightning.
- Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 43.2 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 83 | 206 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.80 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 43.8 (#72)
- Yi-Lightning: 27.0 (#315)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 59.6% | 12.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | 1313 |
| SciCode | 42.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 41% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.7 (#48)
- Yi-Lightning: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 52.1% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -11.34 | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.8 (#302)
- Yi-Lightning: 24.9 (#137)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1302 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 69.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 11% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 9% | — |
| DTBench | 80.3% | — |
| LMCA | 29.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 143.87 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.7 | — |

## Math

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 48.5 (#51)
- Yi-Lightning: 33.5 (#173)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1431 | 1300 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 71.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 68.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 8.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.5 (#67)
- Yi-Lightning: 34.8 (#182)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1460 | 1286 |
| GPQA Diamond | 80.1% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 40.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | — |

## Multilingual

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.5 (#84)
- Yi-Lightning: 42.4 (#191)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1481 | 1320 |
| LMArena French | 1445 | 1304 |
| LMArena German | 1432 | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1400 | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | 1391 | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1429 | 1315 |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.8 (#132)
- Yi-Lightning: 67.6 (#191)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1408 | 1278 |
| IFEval | 83.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#25)
- Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#176)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1426 | 1297 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 75% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.8 (#103)
- Yi-Lightning: 50.4 (#178)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1384 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1432 | 1311 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1366 | — |
| WildBench | 86.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3 235B-A22B better than Yi-Lightning?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Qwen3 235B-A22B or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.8 versus 27.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3 235B-A22B and Yi-Lightning share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.