Yi Model vs Llama
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Yi Model
01.AI's open bilingual models, frozen since 2024; the paid API closed...
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Llama
Meta's downloadable LLM family, last updated with Llama 4 in April 202...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Yi-6B, Yi-34B, Yi-1.5 and Yi-Coder weights free under Apache 2.0; the paid Yi API closed on 3 September 2026 | Free weight downloads (Llama 2, 3.x and 4) under Meta's Llama community licences, after accepting the licence |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ downloads | 10m+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | 01.AI (零一万物) | Meta Platforms |
| Verdict | Yi is now a finished product line. The open weights, from Yi-6B to Yi-1.5 and Yi-Coder, remain free under Apache 2.0 and are still a usable bilingual Chinese-English base, especially for teams that already deployed them.... |
Llama 2 and 3 made Meta's family the default starting point for self-hosted and fine-tuned models, and the weights from Llama 2 through Llama 4 remain free to download from Hugging Face and Kaggle. Llama 4 Scout and Mave... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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