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Model comparison

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct vs Yi-1.5-34B

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct 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-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 36.4 to 14.8.

Side by side

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index37.730.2
Released2025-042024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$7.50—
Results tracked2521

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14131169
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)55.4%—
LMArena WebDev1275—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML41.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench461.45—
AlgoTune1.44—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116), Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
Terminal-Bench27.2%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts13721160
Kagi LLM Benchmark49.5%—

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math13641182
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Expert13371144
GPQA Diamond—32%

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English13451121
LMArena Chinese13561213
LMArena French13941155
LMArena German13241111
LMArena Japanese13091021
LMArena Korean13071005
LMArena Russian13671091
LMArena Spanish13601120

Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13561139

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query13791144

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text13561173
LMArena Creative Writing13331135
LMArena Multi-Turn13651153

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.2 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and Yi-1.5-34B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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