Model comparison

Ministral 8B vs Yi-1.5-34B

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

27.8

Rank #321 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B 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 reasoning, where Yi-1.5-34B leads 21.5 to 17.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.9% for Ministral 8B and 25.5% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Ministral 8B and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Ministral 8BYi-1.5-34B
ProviderMistral AI01.AI
Noometry Index27.830.2
Released2024-10-012024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.10—
Results tracked1721

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Category by category

Coding Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding12021169
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard11.1%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911160
DTBench45.7%—

Math Yi-1.5-34B leads

Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math11881182
MATH Level 514.9%25.5%

Knowledge Yi-1.5-34B leads

Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond27.1%32%
LMArena Expert11701144
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multilingual Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English11651121
LMArena Chinese11931213
LMArena Russian11951091
LMArena French—1155
LMArena German—1111
LMArena Japanese—1021
LMArena Korean—1005
LMArena Spanish—1120

Instruction Following Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following11611139

Long Context Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query12121144

Writing & Preference Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text11911173
LMArena Creative Writing11751135
LMArena Multi-Turn11661153

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 8B better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Ministral 8B or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Yi-1.5-34B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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