# Qwen3 8B vs Yi 6B

> Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Yi 6B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-8b-vs-yi-6b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3 8B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | — |
| Rank | 238 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.18 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 22.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 42.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.17 | 104.77 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| DTBench | 59.7% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 47.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 74.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 71.3% |

## Math

- Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 56.1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 44.9% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.8% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 50.3% |
| MMLU | — | 64% |

## Long Context

- Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
- Yi 6B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.1% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3 8B better than Yi 6B?

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Yi 6B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3 8B and Yi 6B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and Yi 6B has 7.