Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 1, 2026

Doubao Lite 1.5 vs Yi-Lightning benchmark

Name: Doubao Lite 1.5 vs Yi-Lightning AI benchmark comparison
Creator: CompareLLM
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This page compares Doubao Lite 1.5 (ByteDance) and Yi-Lightning (01.AI) using the latest snapshots we have as of Aug 1, 2026. On preference Elo, Yi-Lightning is ahead by 115 points (1,475 vs 1,360; seed-bootstrap (Aug 1, 2026)). On SWE-bench coding, Yi-Lightning resolves 63.4% versus 46% (seed-bootstrap (Aug 1, 2026)). Doubao Lite 1.5 streams faster (180 tok/s) while Doubao Lite 1.5 is the cheaper output token ($0.1/1M). Doubao Lite 1.5 has the larger context window (33k tokens). Every cell below is a dated snapshot from a named public source — we do not invent missing scores, and we do not run SWE-bench ourselves.

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ByteDance

Doubao Lite 1.5

ByteDance high-speed lightweight model priced at sub-cent levels.

Elo 1,360$0.1/1M out

01.AI

Yi-Lightning

01.AI ultra-fast reasoning model delivering top LiveBench efficiency.

Elo 1,475$0.14/1M out

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Tug-of-War Matchup Matrix

Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Doubao Lite 1.5 (5)vsYi-Lightning (5)

Doubao Lite 1.5: 5W (50%)Overall: Even matchupYi-Lightning: 5W (50%)

← Doubao Lite 1.5Yi-Lightning →

Yi-Lightning (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,360vs1,475

Coding Elo

1,320vs1,480

SWE-bench

46%vs63.4%

LiveBench

54%vs65%

GPQA Diamond

64.2%vs78%

Doubao Lite 1.5: 0WYi-Lightning: 5W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

180 tok/svs130 tok/s

Time to first token

110 msvs150 ms

Doubao Lite 1.5: 2WYi-Lightning: 0W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$0.1/1Mvs$0.14/1M

Input price

$0.04/1Mvs$0.14/1M

Context window

33kvs16k

Doubao Lite 1.5: 3WYi-Lightning: 0W

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Percentile 0–100

Dimensional AdvantageEven 3–3

Preference Elo

Yi-Lightning

115 pts advantage

Throughput Speed

Doubao Lite 1.5

50 tok/s faster

Price Efficiency

Doubao Lite 1.5

$0.04/1M cheaper

Full Benchmark Score Matrix

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Elo

High is better

1,360

EloHigh is better

1,475+8%

Code Elo

High is better

1,320

Code EloHigh is better

1,480+12%

LiveBench

High is better

54%

LiveBenchHigh is better

65%+20%

SWE-bench

High is better

46%

SWE-benchHigh is better

63.4%+38%

GPQA

High is better

64.2%

GPQAHigh is better

78%+21%

TTFT

Low is better

+36%110 ms

TTFTLow is better

150 ms

Speed

High is better

+38%180 tok/s

SpeedHigh is better

130 tok/s

In $

Low is better

+250%$0.04/1M

In $Low is better

$0.14/1M

Out $

Low is better

+40%$0.1/1M

Out $Low is better

$0.14/1M

Context

High is better

+100%33k

ContextHigh is better

16k

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Workload Cost & Savings Calculator

Simulate monthly production API costs based on published $/1M tokens.

Save up to 59% with Doubao Lite 1.5

Monthly Volume50M tokens/mo

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Token Ratio (In vs Out)70% In / 30% Out

RAG / Search (10% out)Coding / Chat (50% out)

Doubao Lite 1.5$2.90 / mo

In: $1.40Out: $1.50

Yi-Lightning$7.00 / mo

In: $4.90Out: $2.10

Estimated Cost Delta

Doubao Lite 1.5 is estimated to save $4.10/month ($49/year).

Based on 50M tokens (30% gen)

Key Selection Recommendations

1
Yi-Lightning:Pick Yi-Lightning when repo-level coding accuracy is the constraint.
2
Doubao Lite 1.5:Pick Doubao Lite 1.5 when you are optimizing output cost.
3
Doubao Lite 1.5:Pick Doubao Lite 1.5 when time-to-first-token matters more than peak Elo.

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsYi-Lightning

Higher SWE-bench (63.4%).

High-volume chatDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower TTFT (110 ms).

Long-document RAGDoubao Lite 1.5

Larger window (33k).

Screenshots / visionYi-Lightning

Yi-Lightning is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	Yi-Lightning	Higher SWE-bench (63.4%).
High-volume chat	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower TTFT (110 ms).
Long-document RAG	Doubao Lite 1.5	Larger window (33k).
Screenshots / vision	Yi-Lightning	Yi-Lightning is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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ByteDance

Doubao Lite 1.5

Elo 1,360

LiveBench54%

SWE-bench46%

Speed180 tok/s

Output cost$0.1/1M

01.AI

Yi-Lightning

Elo 1,475

LiveBench65%

SWE-bench63.4%

Speed130 tok/s

Output cost$0.14/1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Doubao Lite 1.5 or Yi-Lightning?: Yi-Lightning has the higher preference Elo in our latest snapshot (1,475). “Better” still depends on coding, price, and latency — see the table.
Which is better at coding, Doubao Lite 1.5 or Yi-Lightning?: Yi-Lightning leads SWE-bench at 63.4% vs 46%. SWE-bench is one harness, not your repo.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: Doubao Lite 1.5 output tokens are $0.1/1M versus $0.14/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.
Which is faster, Doubao Lite 1.5 or Yi-Lightning?: Doubao Lite 1.5 has the lower time-to-first-token (110 ms vs 150 ms). Tokens/sec is a separate column if you care about long completions.
Which has the larger context window?: Doubao Lite 1.5 accepts 33k tokens versus 16k.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Doubao Lite 1.5 and Yi-Lightning Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

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Doubao Lite 1.5 vs Yi-Lightning benchmark

Interactive Comparison Diagram

Matchup Breakdown

Tug-of-War Matchup Matrix

Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Doubao Lite 1.5 (5)vsYi-Lightning (5)

Doubao Lite 1.5: 5W (50%)Overall: Even matchupYi-Lightning: 5W (50%)

← Doubao Lite 1.5Yi-Lightning →

Yi-Lightning (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,360vs1,475

Coding Elo

1,320vs1,480

SWE-bench

46%vs63.4%

LiveBench

54%vs65%

GPQA Diamond

64.2%vs78%

Doubao Lite 1.5: 0WYi-Lightning: 5W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

180 tok/svs130 tok/s

Time to first token

110 msvs150 ms

Doubao Lite 1.5: 2WYi-Lightning: 0W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$0.1/1Mvs$0.14/1M

Input price

$0.04/1Mvs$0.14/1M

Context window

33kvs16k

Doubao Lite 1.5: 3WYi-Lightning: 0W

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsYi-Lightning

Higher SWE-bench (63.4%).

High-volume chatDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower TTFT (110 ms).

Long-document RAGDoubao Lite 1.5

Larger window (33k).

Screenshots / visionYi-Lightning

Yi-Lightning is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	Yi-Lightning	Higher SWE-bench (63.4%).
High-volume chat	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower TTFT (110 ms).
Long-document RAG	Doubao Lite 1.5	Larger window (33k).
Screenshots / vision	Yi-Lightning	Yi-Lightning is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Doubao Lite 1.5 or Yi-Lightning?

Yi-Lightning has the higher preference Elo in our latest snapshot (1,475). “Better” still depends on coding, price, and latency — see the table.

Which is better at coding, Doubao Lite 1.5 or Yi-Lightning?

Yi-Lightning leads SWE-bench at 63.4% vs 46%. SWE-bench is one harness, not your repo.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

Doubao Lite 1.5 output tokens are $0.1/1M versus $0.14/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.

Which is faster, Doubao Lite 1.5 or Yi-Lightning?

Doubao Lite 1.5 has the lower time-to-first-token (110 ms vs 150 ms). Tokens/sec is a separate column if you care about long completions.

Which has the larger context window?

Doubao Lite 1.5 accepts 33k tokens versus 16k.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Doubao Lite 1.5 and Yi-Lightning Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.