Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Yi-1.5-34B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 53.0 to 37.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 56.9% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 25.5% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index34.430.2
Released2024-06-202024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6021

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%33.9%
LMArena Coding13431169
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%43.8%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts13051160
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Yi-1.5-34B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math13061182
MATH Level 556.9%25.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond55.3%32%
LMArena Expert12641144
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English12831121
LMArena Chinese12711213
LMArena French13041155
LMArena German12971111
LMArena Japanese12341021
LMArena Korean12001005
LMArena Russian13051091
LMArena Spanish12891120

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following12971139
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query13111144

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text12981173
LMArena Creative Writing12921135
LMArena Multi-Turn13261153
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Yi-1.5-34B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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