Model comparison
Sonar vs Yi-Lightning
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
PerplexitySummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Sonar leads 35.7 to 27.4.
Side by side
| Sonar | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Perplexity | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 38.5 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2024-01-01 | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1 | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Sonar leads
Sonar: 35.7 (#221), Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 35.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1312 |
Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads
Sonar: 21.1 (#227), Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 46.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1302 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 46.9% | — |
Math Yi-Lightning leads
Sonar: 33.7 (#200), Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 41.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1300 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Sonar: —, Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1286 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Sonar: —, Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1320 |
| LMArena French | — | 1305 |
| LMArena German | — | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1315 |
Instruction Following Sonar leads
Sonar: 71.4 (#150), Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 76.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1278 |
Long Context Not comparable
Sonar: —, Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Sonar leads
Sonar: 52.6 (#167), Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)
| Benchmark | Sonar | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1311 |
| LiveBench Language | 44.1% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Sonar better than Yi-Lightning?
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Sonar or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Sonar and Yi-Lightning share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Sonar has 7 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.