Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Yi-1.5-34B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
ProviderGoogle01.AI
Noometry Index54.130.6
Released2026-07-212024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked4621

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14911169
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851160
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math15051182
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond94.1%32%
LMArena Expert14881144
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14691121
LMArena Chinese15311213
LMArena French15041156
LMArena German14781111
LMArena Japanese14761021
LMArena Korean14311005
LMArena Russian14871091
LMArena Spanish14751121

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14661139

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query14741143

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14791173
LMArena Creative Writing14651135
LMArena Multi-Turn14811153
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Yi-1.5-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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