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Yi-Lightning Chat on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means

Yi-Lightning Chat scores 86.7 on HellaSwag, placing it #189 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.

Score
86.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#189
of 600
Percentile
69th
within the index
Benchmark avg
81.4
all models
Leader
96.1
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
9.4
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Yi-Lightning Chat highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Max 96.1
GPT-5.2 Turbo 95.5
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 95.2
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 95.2
Grok 4 Reasoning 95.2
GPT-5.2 Vision 94.6
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 94.6
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.4
o4 Pro 94.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
2 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
5 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
6 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
7 GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4
8 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
9 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
10 o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3

What this score means

On HellaSwag, Yi-Lightning Chat sits at #189 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 9.4 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Yi-Lightning Chat above the midpoint.

01.AI models average 78.8 on this benchmark. Yi-Lightning Chat is 7.9 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average 01.AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 86.8. Yi-Lightning Chat is 0.1 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 86.7 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 $3.79 per million input tokens, Yi-Lightning Chat is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3.1 Turbo Instruct Together AI 32768 $4.21 76.7
Llama 3.3 Groq Groq 32768 $3.98 76.8
ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning Baidu 65536 $12.20 77.8
Qwen3-Coder Alibaba Cloud 200000 $4.94 79.5
Yi-Lightning Chat 01.AI 32768 $3.79 75.5
GLM-4.6 Base Zhipu AI 128000 $4.53 78.5
ERNIE 4.0 Pro Baidu 200000 $12.58 77.5

Other benchmarks for Yi-Lightning Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 77.3 270 55th
GPQA Diamond 69.8 274 54th
SWE-bench Verified 62.6 266 56th
HumanEval 80.0 234 61th
MATH-500 81.3 184 69th
AIME 2025 69.4 270 55th
LiveCodeBench 67.5 239 60th
IFEval 83.5 234 61th
TruthfulQA 77.8 262 56th
MMMU 74.2 182 70th
Arena Elo 1378.6 279 54th

FAQ

What score does Yi-Lightning Chat get on HellaSwag?

Yi-Lightning Chat scores 86.7 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Yi-Lightning Chat rank on HellaSwag?

It ranks #189 of 600 models, in the 69th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.

Is Yi-Lightning Chat good at HellaSwag?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the HellaSwag score calculated?

HellaSwag is a commonsense 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-Lightning Chat cost?

Yi-Lightning Chat costs $3.79 per million input tokens and $19.14 per million output tokens.

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