Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Yi-1.5-34B

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.6

Rank #139 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 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 knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 41.6 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 84.4% for Claude Sonnet 4 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 Sonnet 4 and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
ProviderAnthropic01.AI
Noometry Index40.630.2
Released2025-05-222024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5821

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 44.0 (#70), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14141169
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.3 (#29), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 23.0 (#169), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts13721160
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.5 (#71), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math13751182
MATH Level 584.4%25.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.6 (#99), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond79.2%32%
LMArena Expert13711144
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 25.6 (#116), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.9 (#151), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English13331121
LMArena Chinese13511213
LMArena French13641155
LMArena German13311111
LMArena Japanese13011021
LMArena Korean12931005
LMArena Russian13551091
LMArena Spanish13561120

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.8 (#141), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13751139
IFEval84%—

Long Context Yi-1.5-34B leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.6 (#254), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query13981144
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.3 (#127), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text13511173
LMArena Creative Writing13451135
LMArena Multi-Turn13761153
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Yi-1.5-34B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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