Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.6 Plus vs Yi-1.5-34B

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.3

Rank #54 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3.6 Plus 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 Qwen3.6 Plus leads 56.1 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 88.4% for Qwen3.6 Plus and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index47.330.2
Released2026-03-312024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$3—
Results tracked3721

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.6 (#125), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14671169
SWE-bench Verified57.9%—
LMArena WebDev1461—
SciCode40.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench670.15—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Plus: —, Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
Vending-Bench 25,115—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 28.5 (#89), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14491160
NYT Connections (extended)60.3%—
CritPt2.9%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
Thematic Generalization59.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench81.9%—
LMCA33.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index147.67—

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 50.6 (#44), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math14501182
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)38.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.3%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)26.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#40), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond88.4%32%
LMArena Expert14561144
SimpleQA Verified44.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.5 (#66), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14241121
LMArena Chinese14781213
LMArena French14541155
LMArena German14511111
LMArena Japanese13891021
LMArena Korean13811005
LMArena Russian14341091
LMArena Spanish14321120

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.2 (#70), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14251139

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.1 (#48), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query14401144
CL-bench20.3%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.4 (#78), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

BenchmarkQwen3.6 PlusYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14371173
LMArena Creative Writing14051135
LMArena Multi-Turn14381153

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.6 Plus better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3.6 Plus or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.6 Plus and Yi-1.5-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.6 Plus has 37 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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