Model comparison

Qwen3 8B vs Yi-34B

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Yi-34B 01.AI

27.8

Rank #329 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 8B scores higher in 4 categories and Yi-34B in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 7.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 56.8% for Qwen3 8B and 14.7% for Yi-34B.

Side by side

Qwen3 8B and Yi-34B specifications
Qwen3 8BYi-34B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index33.727.8
Released2025-042023-11-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.18—
Output $ / M tokens$0.70—
Results tracked1123

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 8B leads

Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
SciCode22.6%—
LMArena Coding—1112

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78), Yi-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard42.6%—

Reasoning Yi-34B leads

Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
Epoch Capabilities Index136.17117.39
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1104
DTBench59.7%—
LMCA8.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%

Math Qwen3 8B leads

Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202556.1%—
LMArena Math—1114
MATH Level 5—5.1%
GSM8K—76%

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
GPQA Diamond56.8%14.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.8%—
LMArena Expert—1061
MMLU—76.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3 8B: —, Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
LMArena Non-English—1079
LMArena Chinese—1176
LMArena French—1081
LMArena German—1042
LMArena Japanese—993
LMArena Korean—959
LMArena Russian—1050
LMArena Spanish—1070

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3 8B: —, Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
LMArena Instruction Following—1091

Long Context Qwen3 8B leads

Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210), Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
Fiction.LiveBench62.1%—
LMArena Longer Query—1094

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3 8B: —, Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 8BYi-34B
LMArena Text—1129
LMArena Creative Writing—1108
LMArena Multi-Turn—1113

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3 8B better than Yi-34B?

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3 8B or Yi-34B better for coding?

Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3 8B and Yi-34B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.

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