# Qwen3-30B-A3B vs Yi 6B

> Qwen3-30B-A3B has enough public results to be ranked (#179); Yi 6B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-30b-a3b-vs-yi-6b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | — |
| Rank | 179 | — |
| Context | 41K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.12 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.50 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 33.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 29.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1416 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 41.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 139.63 | 104.77 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 54.9% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1398 | — |
| DTBench | 69.3% | — |
| LMCA | 22.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 47.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 74.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 71.3% |

## Math

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 47.8% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 70.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1394 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 44.9% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 70.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1396 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 50.3% |
| MMLU | — | 64% |

## Multilingual

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1433 | — |
| LMArena French | 1418 | — |
| LMArena German | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1337 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1404 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1363 | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1379 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-30B-A3B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1317 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 75.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1378 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3-30B-A3B better than Yi 6B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B has enough public results to be ranked (#179); Yi 6B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3-30B-A3B and Yi 6B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Yi 6B has 7.