OpenAI vs Yandex

OpenAI — Foundation Models · Private · $852B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Codex and SourceCraft Code Assistant do comparable work on agentic coding, code generation and code review; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; Yandex's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

11 of 17 capabilitiesShared product type

11 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 8 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldOpenAIYandex
Size$852B valuationnot disclosed
Employees4,50036,991 Yandex has 8.2× more
Founded20151997 18 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Model APIAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 11

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewData analysisDocument extractionImage generationSpeech to textText generationText to speechSearch answers

Not verified for Yandex · 6

Data securityEvaluation and observabilityPresentation generationSummarizationThreat detection and responseWorkflow automation

Recorded for OpenAI. Yandex’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for OpenAI · 7

Customer supportModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingKnowledge retrievalTranslationVoice agent

Recorded for Yandex. OpenAI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

OpenAI

Application

ChatGPTApplication

Assistant for chat, web search, file analysis and image generation, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps; developers can build custom in-chat apps for it via the Apps SDK, built on the Model Context Protocol.

ChatGPT AtlasApplication

OpenAI's agentic web browser. Deprecated on 9 August 2026, with its browser-based agentic capabilities moved into ChatGPT and Codex.

ChatGPT GovApplication

A version of ChatGPT that US government agencies deploy in their own Microsoft Azure commercial or Azure Government cloud, so the agency manages its own security, privacy and compliance.

ChatGPT for ExcelApplication

ChatGPT in the Excel ribbon: builds and edits spreadsheets, formulas and formatting from plain-language requests, answers questions about what is in the workbook, and asks permission before changing it. OpenAI's own page bundles this with a separate ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-in; this record covers the Excel add-in only.

ChatGPT for PowerPointApplication

ChatGPT in the PowerPoint ribbon: creates new slides, rewrites and restructures an existing deck, and turns notes, documents or spreadsheets into presentation-ready content while keeping the output editable in PowerPoint.

ChatGPT for WordApplication

ChatGPT in a Microsoft Word sidebar: drafts, revises and reorganizes the open document from notes or pasted source text, pulling in context from connected apps like Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace and Dropbox.

SoraApplication

OpenAI's text-to-video product. The web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026; the API will be discontinued on 24 September 2026.

Yandex

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

No counterpart

OpenAI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Yandex yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

CodexAI agent

Coding agent that reads, edits and runs a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and the ChatGPT web app.

Agent platform

OpenAI DaybreakAgent platform

OpenAI's cybersecurity offering, bringing together frontier cyber models, Codex Security and partner workflows to find, validate and fix vulnerabilities, with an access-gated Daybreak Red tier for authorised vulnerability research and red teaming.

OpenAI FrontierAgent platform

Enterprise platform for connecting AI agents to systems of record and running them under enterprise identity, access and observability controls.

Model API

OpenAI APIModel API

Hosted API for OpenAI's text, image, audio and embedding models, billed per token.

Yandex sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for OpenAI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.