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Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct vs Yi-Lightning

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.1 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Yi-Lightning 01.AI

37.1

Rank #209 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher in 7 categories and Yi-Lightning in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 35.5 to 27.4.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index38.137.1
Released2025-042024-12-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$7.50—
Results tracked2518

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Coding14121312
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)55.4%—
Aider Polyglot—12.9%
LMArena WebDev1275—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML41.2%—
ALE-Bench461.45—
AlgoTune1.44—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123), Yi-Lightning: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
Terminal-Bench27.2%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts13721302
Kagi LLM Benchmark49.5%—

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Math13651300

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162), Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Expert13381286

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148), Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Non-English13461269
LMArena Chinese13571320
LMArena French13981305
LMArena German13251267
LMArena Japanese13101228
LMArena Korean13051192
LMArena Russian13661255
LMArena Spanish13601315

Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following13551278

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Longer Query13781297

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-Lightning
LMArena Text13571302
LMArena Creative Writing13331280
LMArena Multi-Turn13651311

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better than Yi-Lightning?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and Yi-Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.1 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or Yi-Lightning better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and Yi-Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.

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