Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Yi-Lightning in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Yi-Lightning leads 24.9 to 8.7.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 36.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161), Yi-Lightning: 27.0 (#315)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1313 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342), Yi-Lightning: 24.9 (#137)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1302 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
Math Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187), Yi-Lightning: 33.5 (#173)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1249 | 1300 |
Knowledge Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199), Yi-Lightning: 34.8 (#182)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1222 | 1286 |
Multilingual Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219), Yi-Lightning: 42.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1320 |
| LMArena French | 1268 | 1304 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1176 | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1269 | 1315 |
Instruction Following Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207), Yi-Lightning: 67.6 (#191)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1278 |
Long Context Too close to call
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Yi-Lightning leads
Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214), Yi-Lightning: 50.4 (#178)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1311 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Yi-Lightning?
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Medium or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 27.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Yi-Lightning share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.