Model comparison

Qwen3 14B vs Yi-1.5-34B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3 14B scores higher in 4 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 14B leads 39.3 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 63.8% for Qwen3 14B and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Qwen3 14B and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Qwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index35.530.6
Released2025-042024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.35—
Output $ / M tokens$1.40—
Results tracked1221

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
SciCode31.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
LMArena Coding—1169
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard41%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
Kagi LLM Benchmark49.1%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1160
DTBench64%—
LMCA18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index138.23—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.4%—
LMArena Math—1182
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond63.8%32%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.4%—
LMArena Expert—1144

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3 14B: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English—1121
LMArena Chinese—1213
LMArena French—1156
LMArena German—1111
LMArena Japanese—1021
LMArena Korean—1005
LMArena Russian—1091
LMArena Spanish—1121

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3 14B: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following—1139

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
Fiction.LiveBench62.5%—
LMArena Longer Query—1143

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3 14B: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 14BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text—1173
LMArena Creative Writing—1135
LMArena Multi-Turn—1153

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3 14B better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3 14B or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3 14B and Yi-1.5-34B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3 14B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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