# Qwen3 32B vs Yi-34B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-32b-vs-yi-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 32B scores higher in 7 categories and Yi-34B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 32B leads 40.0 to 7.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 65.7% for Qwen3 32B and 14.7% for Yi-34B.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.2 | 27.8 |
| Rank | 172 | 329 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.80 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)
- Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1358 | 1112 |
| Aider Polyglot | 40% | — |
| SciCode | 35.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)
- Yi-34B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 48.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)
- Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1334 | 1104 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.51 | 117.39 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 54.9% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| DTBench | 67.5% | — |
| LMCA | 17.3% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |

## Math

- Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)
- Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1399 | 1114 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 5.1% |
| GSM8K | — | 76% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)
- Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7% | 14.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1362 | 1061 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.9% | — |
| MMLU | — | 76.3% |

## Multilingual

- Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)
- Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1317 | 1079 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1357 | 1176 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1042 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1050 |
| LMArena French | — | 1081 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 993 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 959 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1070 |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)
- Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1091 |

## Long Context

- Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)
- Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1094 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 74.2% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)
- Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 32B | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1129 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1297 | 1108 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1331 | 1113 |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3 32B better than Yi-34B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Qwen3 32B or Yi-34B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3 32B and Yi-34B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 32B has 26 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.