Model comparison

Magistral Small vs Yi-1.5-34B

Magistral Small and Yi-1.5-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Small Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #289 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 2 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 56.1% for Magistral Small and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Magistral Small and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Magistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
ProviderMistral AI01.AI
Noometry Index29.930.2
Released2025-06-102024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output40K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked1021

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
SciCode35.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
LMArena Coding—1169
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark6.3%—
ARC-AGI-15%—
CritPt0.3%—
Chess Puzzles3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1160
DTBench61.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.19—

Math Too close to call

Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530%—
LMArena Math—1182
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Magistral Small leads

Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond56.1%32%
LMArena Expert—1144

Multilingual Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English—1121
LMArena Chinese—1213
LMArena French—1155
LMArena German—1111
LMArena Japanese—1021
LMArena Korean—1005
LMArena Russian—1091
LMArena Spanish—1120

Instruction Following Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following—1139

Long Context Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query—1144

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text—1173
LMArena Creative Writing—1135
LMArena Multi-Turn—1153

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Small better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Magistral Small and Yi-1.5-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Magistral Small or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Yi-1.5-34B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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