# Granite 4.0 Micro vs Yi-34B

> Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-4-0-micro-vs-yi-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Yi-34B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 56.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 28.3% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 14.7% for Yi-34B.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 27.8 |
| Rank | 318 | 329 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.017 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Granite 4.0 Micro: —
- Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1112 |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)
- Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1104 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 117.39 |

## Math

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)
- Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1114 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 5.1% |
| GSM8K | — | 76% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)
- Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 14.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1061 |
| MMLU | — | 76.3% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 4.0 Micro: —
- Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-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

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)
- Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1091 |

## Long Context

- Granite 4.0 Micro: —
- Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1094 |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)
- Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1129 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1108 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1113 |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Yi-34B?

Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Yi-34B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.