Yi Vision
01.AIProprietary
Yi Vision is a vision-language model from 01.AI. It ranks 156 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 978±18 from 1,219 votes. License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- 01.AI
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: OCR, Diagrams, Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor, Chinese.
Who it suits
- Overall #156 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Proprietary; used through 01.AI’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 |  Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct Alibaba | 990 | 5,766 | Apache 2.0 | +12 |
| 154 |  Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) Anthropic | 984 | 12,314 | Proprietary | +6 |
| 155 | AAmazon Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | 980 | 2,335 | Proprietary | +2 |
| 156 | 0Yi Vision 01.AI | 978 | 1,219 | Proprietary | |
| 157 |  Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct Meta | 966 | 4,817 | Llama 3.2 | -12 |
| 158 |  Molmo 7B-D (0924) Ai2 | 959 | 2,815 | Apache 2.0 | -19 |
| 159 | Claude 3 Haiku (20240307) Anthropic | 950 | 13,380 | Proprietary | -28 |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 |  Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Yi Vision rank among vision models?
Overall rank 156 (978); English rank 152 (1007) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Yi Vision at OCR?
Yi Vision is not on LMArena’s OCR board yet, so there is no score to cite.
Is Yi Vision open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through 01.AI’s apps or API.
How far is Yi Vision from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Yi Vision has 978, 347 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.