Model comparison

o3 vs Yi-1.5-34B

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. o3 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 o3 leads 54.6 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 97.8% for o3 and 25.5% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o3 and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
o3Yi-1.5-34B
ProviderOpenAI01.AI
Noometry Index47.530.6
Released2025-04-162024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked6321

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

o3: 46.8 (#64), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14081169
SWE-bench Verified62.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)58.4%—
Aider Polyglot81.3%—
GSO8.8%—
WeirdML52.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
CadEval74%—
ALE-Bench933.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o3: 34.5 (#44), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval30.8%—
DeepResearch Bench45.2%—
OSWorld23%—
LMArena Search1144—
METR Time Horizons65.4%—

Reasoning o3 leads

o3: 32.0 (#78), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14021160
ARC-AGI-26.5%—
SimpleBench53.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
ARC-AGI-160.8%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
EnigmaEval13.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles29%—
DTBench84.8%—
LMCA39.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.86—
ForecastBench62.5—

Math o3 leads

o3: 50.2 (#58), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math14261182
MATH Level 597.8%25.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.4%—
Omni-MATH71.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)18.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge o3 leads

o3: 54.6 (#52), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond81.8%32%
LMArena Expert14021144
Humanity's Last Exam20.3%—
SimpleQA Verified49.4%—
MMLU-Pro85.9%—
Confabulations14.4%—
GPQA (HELM)75.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

o3: 41.4 (#36), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1214—
GeoBench74%—
VPCT52%—

Multilingual o3 leads

o3: 51.7 (#105), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14011121
LMArena Chinese14371213
LMArena French14301156
LMArena German14201111
LMArena Japanese14031021
LMArena Korean13701005
LMArena Russian14061091
LMArena Spanish13951121

Instruction Following o3 leads

o3: 72.8 (#127), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13681139
IFEval86.9%—

Long Context o3 leads

o3: 53.3 (#6), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query13721143
Fiction.LiveBench88.9%—
CL-bench17.8%—

Writing & Preference o3 leads

o3: 63.5 (#64), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3Yi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14101173
LMArena Creative Writing13591135
LMArena Multi-Turn14051153
Short-Story Creative Writing83.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1676—
WildBench86.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o3 better than Yi-1.5-34B?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is o3 or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o3 and Yi-1.5-34B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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