Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Yi-1.5-34B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 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 math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 27.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 91% for Claude Opus 4.8 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 4.8 and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index60.730.6
Released2026-05-282024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6521

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14901169
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14821160
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond91%32%
LMArena Expert15021144
SimpleQA Verified53%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14501121
LMArena Chinese15071213
LMArena French14811156
LMArena German14721111
LMArena Japanese14401021
LMArena Korean14321005
LMArena Russian14741091
LMArena Spanish14661121

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14761139

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query14831143

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14611173
LMArena Creative Writing14541135
LMArena Multi-Turn14761153
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Yi-1.5-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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