Noometry

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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Yi-Lightning

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

37.1

Rank #209 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Yi-Lightning in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 37.9 to 27.4.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index37.837.1
Released2025-02-052024-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3218

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Coding13221312
Aider Polyglot—12.9%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts13241302
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Yi-Lightning leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Math13091300
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Expert13051286
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Yi-Lightning: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English13231269
LMArena Chinese13391320
LMArena French13471305
LMArena German13061267
LMArena Japanese13011228
LMArena Korean13251192
LMArena Russian13281255
LMArena Spanish13131315

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following13051278
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query13201297

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteYi-Lightning
LMArena Text13301302
LMArena Creative Writing13191280
LMArena Multi-Turn13071311
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Yi-Lightning?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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