Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Yi-34B

GPT-4o and Yi-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 27.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Yi-34B 01.AI

27.8

Rank #329 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 5 categories and Yi-34B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4o leads 28.8 to 7.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 53.3% for GPT-4o and 5.1% for Yi-34B.
  • Yi-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Yi-34B specifications
GPT-4oYi-34B
ProviderOpenAI01.AI
Noometry Index28.627.8
Released2024-05-132023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7223

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Category by category

Coding Yi-34B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Coding12971112
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Yi-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Yi-34B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts12811104
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97117.39
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Yi-34B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Math12851114
MATH Level 553.3%5.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—76%

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
GPQA Diamond49.2%14.7%
LMArena Expert12501061
MMLU88.1%76.3%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Yi-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Non-English12831079
LMArena Chinese12771176
LMArena French13041081
LMArena German12821042
LMArena Japanese1257993
LMArena Korean1234959
LMArena Russian12861050
LMArena Spanish12921070

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Instruction Following12781091
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Longer Query12891094
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oYi-34B
LMArena Text13001129
LMArena Creative Writing12921108
LMArena Multi-Turn13021113
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Yi-34B?

GPT-4o and Yi-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 27.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4o or Yi-34B better for coding?

Yi-34B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.3 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Yi-34B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.

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