Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Yi-1.5-34B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash 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 Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 36.4 to 14.8.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index39.330.6
Released2025-04-172024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked5421

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14241169
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench661.88—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221160
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
DTBench76.5%—
LMCA27.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math14151182
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
Omni-MATH38.5%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Expert14261144
GPQA Diamond—32%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14091121
LMArena Chinese14501213
LMArena French14331156
LMArena German14181111
LMArena Japanese14051021
LMArena Korean13851005
LMArena Russian14151091
LMArena Spanish14211121

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14051139
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query14191143
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14171173
LMArena Creative Writing14001135
LMArena Multi-Turn14081153
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Yi-1.5-34B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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