Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Yi-1.5-34B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 leads 56.6 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 98.1% for GPT-5 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-5 and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
GPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
ProviderOpenAI01.AI
Noometry Index50.930.6
Released2025-08-072024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6921

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14361169
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14161160
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math14071182
MATH Level 598.1%25.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench18%—
Omni-MATH64.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond86.2%32%
LMArena Expert14191144
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English13971121
LMArena Chinese14221213
LMArena French14101156
LMArena German14161111
LMArena Japanese14091021
LMArena Korean13601005
LMArena Russian14061091
LMArena Spanish13991121

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13881139
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query13991143
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14061173
LMArena Creative Writing13651135
LMArena Multi-Turn14261153
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Yi-1.5-34B?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Yi-1.5-34B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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