# Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) vs Yi-34B

> Yi-34B has enough public results to be ranked (#329); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen2-5-coder-vs-yi-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | — | 27.8 |
| Rank | — | 329 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1112 |

## Reasoning

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.14 | 117.39 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1104 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| HellaSwag | 76.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.9% | — |

## Math

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 76% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1114 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 5.1% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 68% | 76.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 14.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1061 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | 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

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1091 |

## Long Context

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1094 |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1129 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1108 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1113 |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) better than Yi-34B?

Yi-34B has enough public results to be ranked (#329); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) and Yi-34B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.