Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs Yi-34B
Ministral 8B and Yi-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.2 vs 27.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 7 categories and Yi-34B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Ministral 8B leads 39.6 to 34.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.1% for Ministral 8B and 14.7% for Yi-34B.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | Yi-34B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.2 | 27.8 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2023-11-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | 1112 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), Yi-34B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning Yi-34B leads
Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1104 |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 117.39 |
Math Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1114 |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | 5.1% |
| GSM8K | — | 76% |
Knowledge Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | 14.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | 1061 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| MMLU | — | 76.3% |
Multilingual Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | 1079 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | 1176 |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | 1050 |
| LMArena French | — | 1081 |
| LMArena German | — | 1042 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 993 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 959 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1070 |
Instruction Following Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | 1091 |
Long Context Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | 1094 |
Writing & Preference Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1129 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | 1108 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | 1113 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than Yi-34B?
Ministral 8B and Yi-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.2 vs 27.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Ministral 8B or Yi-34B better for coding?
Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Yi-34B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.