Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 4 categories and Yi-Lightning in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Yi-Lightning leads 33.5 to 15.4.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 36.5 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Yi-Lightning: 27.0 (#315)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | 1313 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Yi-Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads
Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Yi-Lightning: 24.9 (#137)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1336 | 1302 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Yi-Lightning leads
Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Yi-Lightning: 33.5 (#173)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1300 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Yi-Lightning leads
Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Yi-Lightning: 34.8 (#182)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1293 | 1286 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Yi-Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Yi-Lightning: 42.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1342 | 1320 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | 1304 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | 1260 | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1315 |
Instruction Following Yi-Lightning leads
Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Yi-Lightning: 67.6 (#191)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1278 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Yi-Lightning: 50.4 (#178)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1304 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1311 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Yi-Lightning?
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Small or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 27.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Yi-Lightning share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.