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Mistral Small 3 vs Yi-Lightning

How do these models stack up? Below is an expert side-by-side comparison of specifications, context window capacity, live pricing per million tokens, and standardized benchmark scores for Mistral Small 3 and Yi-Lightning.

Mistral

Mistral Small 3

Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it features both pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions designed...

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01.AI

Yi-Lightning

Yi-Lightning is 01.AI's (離一万物) fastest and most cost-efficient model, purpose-built for high-throughput production workloads. It delivers competitive performance against GPT-4o-mini and Claude Haiku at a fraction of the cost, with exceptional bilingual Chinese-English capabilities. Yi-Lightning excels at classification, entity extraction, summarization, and high-frequency API tasks where latency and cost-per-call are critical constraints.

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Technical Specifications

SpecificationMistral Small 3Yi-Lightning
ProviderMistral01.AI
Context Window32,768 tokens131,072 tokens
Agent Suitability84/10082/100
Time to First Token (TTFT)120 ms120 ms
Deployment Modelmanaged apimanaged api
Production Stabilitystablestable
API AvailableYesYes
Released Date2025-01-302025-10-01

API Pricing Comparison

Input Price per Million Tokens

Mistral Small 3

$0.07

Yi-Lightning

$0.15

Output Price per Million Tokens

Mistral Small 3

$0.20

Yi-Lightning

$0.30

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Benchmark Performance Metrics

Scores show the raw performance percentages verified across key evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior accuracy and capability in that domain.

MMLUGeneral knowledge & multi-task understanding
8120.0%vsN/A
Mistral Small 3
Yi-Lightning
HumanEvalPython coding & logic synthesis
8300.0%vsN/A
Mistral Small 3
Yi-Lightning
MATHComplex mathematical problem solving
6800.0%vsN/A
Mistral Small 3
Yi-Lightning
GPQAGraduate-level expert reasoning
4500.0%vsN/A
Mistral Small 3
Yi-Lightning
HellaSwagCommonsense reasoning and inference
8500.0%vsN/A
Mistral Small 3
Yi-Lightning
MT-BenchMulti-turn conversation flow quality
830.0%vsN/A
Mistral Small 3
Yi-Lightning

Mistral Small 3 Quirks & Gotchas

  • β–ΈFastest TTFT at lowest cost β€” ideal for high-volume classification
  • β–ΈNot designed for complex reasoning β€” route multi-step tasks to Mistral Large 3

Yi-Lightning Quirks & Gotchas

  • β–ΈBest cost-efficiency for high-volume bilingual applications
  • β–ΈSelf-hostable via Ollama β€” excellent open-weight option for Asian-language pipelines