Model comparison

Mistral Small vs Yi-1.5-34B

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.1

Rank #238 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 6 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small leads 30.9 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 46.8% for Mistral Small and 25.5% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Mistral Small and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Mistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
ProviderMistral AI01.AI
Noometry Index33.130.2
Released2024-02-262024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output256K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked3921

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct36.1%33.9%
LMArena Coding13631169
BigCodeBench Complete46.6%43.8%
SciCode26.5%—
LiveBench Coding36.2%—
ALE-Bench497.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.1%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts13361160
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning44.8%—
DTBench70.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis53.7%—
LMCA20.6%—
LiveBench44%—

Math Yi-1.5-34B leads

Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math13411182
MATH Level 546.8%25.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.8%—
LiveBench Math39.9%—

Knowledge Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond47.5%32%
LMArena Expert12931144
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
MMLU68.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1142—

Multilingual Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English13151121
LMArena Chinese13421213
LMArena French13371155
LMArena German13411111
LMArena Japanese12751021
LMArena Korean12601005
LMArena Russian13241091
LMArena Spanish13461120

Instruction Following Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13101139
LiveBench Instruction Following63.7%—

Long Context Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query13271144

Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text13381173
LMArena Creative Writing13041135
LMArena Multi-Turn13441153
LiveBench Language30.5%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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