Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Yi-1.5-34B

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 4 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Yi-1.5-34B leads 27.5 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.2% for GPT-4 and 43.8% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
GPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
ProviderOpenAI01.AI
Noometry Index29.130.6
Released2023-03-142024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked3821

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct46%33.9%
LMArena Coding12541169
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%43.8%
WeirdML12.4%—
HumanEval+79.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts12411160
Chess Puzzles4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA17.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index125.89—
ForecastBench57.8—
HellaSwag95.3%—
WinoGrande87.5%—

Math Yi-1.5-34B leads

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math12691182
MATH Level 523%25.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
GSM8K92%—

Knowledge GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond35.7%32%
LMArena Expert12111144
MMLU86.4%—
TriviaQA84.8%—

Multilingual GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English12461121
LMArena Chinese12421213
LMArena French12831156
LMArena German12511111
LMArena Japanese12091021
LMArena Korean11841005
LMArena Russian12511091
LMArena Spanish12611121

Instruction Following GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following12411139

Long Context GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query12441143

Writing & Preference Yi-1.5-34B leads

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text12631173
LMArena Creative Writing12441135
LMArena Multi-Turn12571153
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4 or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.6 vs 32.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Yi-1.5-34B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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