Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Yi-34B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Yi-34B 01.AI

27.8

Rank #329 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 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 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 7.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 14.7% for Yi-34B.
  • Yi-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Yi-34B specifications
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index41.527.8
Released2026-07-212023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3923

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Coding14531112
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Yi-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411104
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13117.39
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Math14331114
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
MATH Level 5—5.1%
GSM8K—76%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
GPQA Diamond83.3%14.7%
LMArena Expert14351061
MMLU—76.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Yi-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Non-English14271079
LMArena Chinese14691176
LMArena French14511081
LMArena German14541042
LMArena Japanese1427993
LMArena Korean1407959
LMArena Russian14431050
LMArena Spanish14421070

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14201091

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Longer Query14351094

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteYi-34B
LMArena Text14351129
LMArena Creative Writing14201108
LMArena Multi-Turn14451113
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

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

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.

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