Model comparison

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B vs Yi-1.5-34B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B 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 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.4 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 49% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and 33.9% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Qwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index33.430.6
Released2024-09-182024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window33K—
Max output29K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.66—
Output $ / M tokens$1—
Results tracked3121

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Category by category

Coding Yi-1.5-34B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct49%33.9%
LMArena Coding12761169
BigCodeBench Complete58%43.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)9%—
Aider Polyglot16.4%—
LiveBench Coding56.9%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+77%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts12511160
LiveBench Reasoning42.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis49.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index119.49—
HellaSwag83%—
LiveBench46.2%—
WinoGrande80.8%—

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math12511182
LiveBench Math46.6%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%
GSM8K93%—

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Expert12211144
GPQA Diamond—32%
ARC (AI2) Challenge70.5%—
MMLU79.1%—

Multilingual Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English12051121
LMArena Chinese12221213
LMArena Russian12281091
LMArena French—1156
LMArena German—1111
LMArena Japanese—1021
LMArena Korean—1005
LMArena Spanish—1121

Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following12231139
LiveBench Instruction Following58.7%—

Long Context Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query12511143

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text12301173
LMArena Creative Writing11741135
LMArena Multi-Turn12221153
LiveBench Language23.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen2.5-Coder-32B or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Yi-1.5-34B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and Yi-1.5-34B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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