Model comparison

GLM-4.5-Air vs Yi-1.5-34B

GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5-Air 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 GLM-4.5-Air leads 35.0 to 14.8.

Side by side

GLM-4.5-Air and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
GLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)01.AI
Noometry Index38.930.6
Released2025-07-202024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output98K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.20—
Output $ / M tokens$1.10—
Results tracked2721

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding13971169
GSO2.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%

Reasoning GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts13791160
Kagi LLM Benchmark43%—
ForecastBench59.2—

Math GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math13961182
Omni-MATH39.1%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Expert13701144
GPQA Diamond—32%
Humanity's Last Exam8.1%—
MMLU-Pro76.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)59.4%—

Multilingual GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English13661121
LMArena Chinese14261213
LMArena French13991156
LMArena German13771111
LMArena Japanese13481021
LMArena Korean13081005
LMArena Russian13731091
LMArena Spanish13861121

Instruction Following GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13541139
IFEval81.2%—

Long Context GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query13661143

Writing & Preference GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text13841173
LMArena Creative Writing13431135
LMArena Multi-Turn13711153
WildBench78.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5-Air better than Yi-1.5-34B?

GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GLM-4.5-Air or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (33.3 vs 32.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5-Air and Yi-1.5-34B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5-Air has 27 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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