Preference · 01.AI

Yi-Large 8B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

Yi-Large 8B scores 1242.0 on Arena Elo, placing it #507 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1242.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#507
of 600
Percentile
16th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
259.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Yi-Large 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, Yi-Large 8B sits at #507 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 259.9 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Yi-Large 8B below the midpoint.

01.AI models average 1317.5 on this benchmark. Yi-Large 8B is 75.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average 01.AI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 1224.7. Yi-Large 8B is 17.3 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 1242.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $0.88 per million input tokens, Yi-Large 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
DBRX 8B Databricks 4096 $0.82 54.1
Llama 3 Replicate 7B Replicate 32768 $0.91 56.0
Llama 3 Novita 8B Novita AI 16384 $0.99 55.5
Llama 3 DeepInfra 8B DeepInfra 8192 $1.05 57.4
Yi-Large 8B 01.AI 32768 $0.88 56.1
Phi-4 7B Microsoft 8192 $0.91 56.8
Llama 3 Modal 7B Modal 4096 $0.88 55.2

Other benchmarks for Yi-Large 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 60.0 529 12th
GPQA Diamond 52.3 499 17th
SWE-bench Verified 40.5 518 14th
HumanEval 61.3 481 20th
MATH-500 53.6 529 12th
AIME 2025 43.8 513 15th
LiveCodeBench 46.2 485 19th
IFEval 66.9 505 16th
TruthfulQA 63.7 479 20th
HellaSwag 73.6 465 23th
MMMU 55.0 498 17th

FAQ

What score does Yi-Large 8B get on Arena Elo?

Yi-Large 8B scores 1242.0 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does Yi-Large 8B rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #507 of 600 models, in the 16th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is Yi-Large 8B good at Arena Elo?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Yi-Large 8B cost?

Yi-Large 8B costs $0.88 per million input tokens and $3.98 per million output tokens.

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