Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Yi-1.5-34B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 61.8 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.5% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index58.330.2
Released2026-02-042024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6821

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding15351169
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts15271160
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond90.5%32%
LMArena Expert15461144
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14901121
LMArena Chinese15511213
LMArena French15131155
LMArena German15041111
LMArena Japanese14841021
LMArena Korean14651005
LMArena Russian14971091
LMArena Spanish15121120

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following15231139

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query15201144
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text15041173
LMArena Creative Writing15061135
LMArena Multi-Turn15141153
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Yi-1.5-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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