Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Yi-34B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Yi-34B 01.AI

27.8

Rank #329 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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 Flash Preview leads 58.8 to 7.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 89.4% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 14.7% for Yi-34B.
  • Yi-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Yi-34B specifications
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index52.327.8
Released2025-12-172023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$3—
Results tracked5923

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
LMArena Coding14601112
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Yi-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14651104
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8117.39
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA43.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
GPQA Diamond89.4%14.7%
LMArena Expert14621061
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—
MMLU—76.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Yi-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
LMArena Non-English14581079
LMArena Chinese15111176
LMArena French14771081
LMArena German14971042
LMArena Japanese1489993
LMArena Korean1443959
LMArena Russian14801050
LMArena Spanish14691070

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14371091

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
LMArena Longer Query14521094

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewYi-34B
LMArena Text14661129
LMArena Creative Writing14571108
LMArena Multi-Turn14711113

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Yi-34B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Yi-34B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Yi-34B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.

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