Is Yi Large deprecated or retired?

Yes. Yi Large is Retired per 01.AI's own deprecation notice, retired on 2026-08-17. ModelPriceWatch last re-verified this status on 2026-08-17.

Is Yi Large deprecated?

01.AI · lifecycle status verified Aug 17, 2026 against the provider's own page.

Yes — Yi Large is retired as of Aug 17, 2026. 01.AI no longer serves it on the endpoint we price. The prices below are kept for historical reference only.

Last verified pricing

historical reference — not a buy recommendation

Yi Large was last priced at $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $9.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 32K-token context window. Full history stays on the Yi Large model page.

Picking a replacement

We don't hold a benchmark average for Yi Large, so we won't claim any model is "equivalent" to it. Compare live prices across every current model in the migration calculator.

Migrating off Yi Large? The migration calculator compares your exact input/output token mix against every current model we track, with benchmark tradeoffs. Lifecycle data on this page comes from 01.AI's own page and was last re-verified on Aug 17, 2026. See all retired & deprecated models.