Model comparison

Qwen3 32B vs Yi-34B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Yi-34B 01.AI

27.8

Rank #329 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 32B scores higher in 7 categories and Yi-34B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 32B leads 40.0 to 7.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 65.7% for Qwen3 32B and 14.7% for Yi-34B.

Side by side

Qwen3 32B and Yi-34B specifications
Qwen3 32BYi-34B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index39.227.8
Released2025-042023-11-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.70—
Output $ / M tokens$2.80—
Results tracked2623

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
LMArena Coding13581112
Aider Polyglot40%—
SciCode35.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62), Yi-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard48.7%—

Reasoning Yi-34B leads

Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts13341104
Epoch Capabilities Index138.51117.39
Kagi LLM Benchmark54.9%—
CritPt0.3%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
DTBench67.5%—
LMCA17.3%—
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
LMArena Math13991114
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.9%—
MATH Level 5—5.1%
GSM8K—76%

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
GPQA Diamond65.7%14.7%
LMArena Expert13621061
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.9%—
MMLU—76.3%

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167), Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
LMArena Non-English13171079
LMArena Chinese13571176
LMArena German13411042
LMArena Russian13111050
LMArena French—1081
LMArena Japanese—993
LMArena Korean—959
LMArena Spanish—1070

Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179), Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13051091

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87), Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
LMArena Longer Query13271094
Fiction.LiveBench74.2%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163), Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 32BYi-34B
LMArena Text13401129
LMArena Creative Writing12971108
LMArena Multi-Turn13311113

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3 32B better than Yi-34B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3 32B or Yi-34B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3 32B and Yi-34B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 32B has 26 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.

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