Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Yi-34B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Yi-34B 01.AI

27.8

Rank #329 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-34B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 41.9 to 7.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 81.8% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 14.7% for Yi-34B.
  • Yi-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Yi-34B specifications
Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index40.827.8
Released2026-03-032023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3823

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Coding14001112
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Yi-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14071104
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47117.39
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Math14281114
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
MATH Level 5—5.1%
GSM8K—76%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
GPQA Diamond81.8%14.7%
LMArena Expert13981061
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
MMLU—76.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Yi-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Non-English14111079
LMArena Chinese14611176
LMArena French14241081
LMArena German14291042
LMArena Japanese1413993
LMArena Korean1392959
LMArena Russian14201050
LMArena Spanish14211070

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13771091

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Longer Query13941094

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Text14161129
LMArena Creative Writing14011108
LMArena Multi-Turn14171113

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Yi-34B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Yi-34B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Yi-34B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.

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