Model comparison

GPT-4o mini vs Yi-1.5-34B

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 25.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 5 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Yi-1.5-34B leads 25.3 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 52.6% for GPT-4o mini and 25.5% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o mini and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
GPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
ProviderOpenAI01.AI
Noometry Index25.430.2
Released2024-07-182024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked6021

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Category by category

Coding Yi-1.5-34B leads

GPT-4o mini: 21.6 (#330), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%33.9%
LMArena Coding12901169
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%43.8%
Aider Polyglot3.6%—
WeirdML11.8%—
LiveBench Coding43.1%—
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o mini: 27.2 (#95), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
BALROG17.4%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#343), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts12671160
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench10.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning32.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench54.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50%—
LMCA10.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.56—
LiveBench41.3%—
PIQA88.7%—

Math Yi-1.5-34B leads

GPT-4o mini: 9.9 (#307), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math12671182
MATH Level 552.6%25.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.9%—
Omni-MATH28%—
LiveBench Math36.3%—
GSM8K91.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#279), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond37.7%32%
LMArena Expert12351144
SimpleQA Verified8.3%—
MMLU-Pro60.3%—
Confabulations37.2%—
GPQA (HELM)36.8%—
BoolQ88.7%—
MMLU81.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o mini: 25.3 (#117), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1066—
Video-MME64.8%—
GeoBench64%—
VPCT34%—

Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 42.2 (#194), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English12661121
LMArena Chinese12641213
LMArena French12961155
LMArena German12721111
LMArena Japanese12161021
LMArena Korean11951005
LMArena Russian12751091
LMArena Spanish12761120

Instruction Following GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 62.1 (#234), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following12591139
LiveBench Instruction Following56.8%—
IFEval78.2%—

Long Context GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#181), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query12891144

Writing & Preference GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 39.7 (#243), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text12861173
LMArena Creative Writing12681135
LMArena Multi-Turn12851153
Short-Story Creative Writing67.2%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing873—
WildBench79.1%—
LiveBench Language28.6%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 25.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Yi-1.5-34B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.9 versus 21.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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