Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Yi-1.5-34B

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 6 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Yi-1.5-34B leads 27.5 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.2% for Claude 3 Opus and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Claude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index29.530.6
Released2024-02-292024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4621

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%33.9%
LMArena Coding12641169
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%43.8%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts12451160
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Yi-1.5-34B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math12731182
MATH Level 537.5%25.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond47.2%32%
LMArena Expert12231144
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English12581121
LMArena Chinese12481213
LMArena French12751156
LMArena German12581111
LMArena Japanese12041021
LMArena Korean11871005
LMArena Russian12801091
LMArena Spanish12461121

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following12481139
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query12591143

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text12621173
LMArena Creative Writing12351135
LMArena Multi-Turn12751153
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Yi-1.5-34B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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