Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Yi-1.5-34B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index41.830.2
Released2026-07-212024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3821

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14551169
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411160
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math14311182
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond83.3%32%
LMArena Expert14301144

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14281121
LMArena Chinese14671213
LMArena French14521155
LMArena German14541111
LMArena Japanese14281021
LMArena Korean14061005
LMArena Russian14431091
LMArena Spanish14401120

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14201139

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query14351144

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14361173
LMArena Creative Writing14191135
LMArena Multi-Turn14451153
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Yi-1.5-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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