Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Yi-1.5-34B

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Yi-1.5-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.8

Rank #286 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 29.0 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 20.5% for Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and 33.9% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Granite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
ProviderIBM01.AI
Noometry Index30.830.6
Released—2024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1321

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Category by category

Coding Yi-1.5-34B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%33.9%
LMArena Coding10901169
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts10731160

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math11171182
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Expert10641144
GPQA Diamond—32%

Multilingual Yi-1.5-34B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English10331121
LMArena Chinese10701213
LMArena Russian10451091
LMArena French—1156
LMArena German—1111
LMArena Japanese—1021
LMArena Korean—1005
LMArena Spanish—1121

Instruction Following Yi-1.5-34B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following10561139

Long Context Yi-1.5-34B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query10701143

Writing & Preference Yi-1.5-34B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text10801173
LMArena Creative Writing10461135
LMArena Multi-Turn10531153

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Yi-1.5-34B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Yi-1.5-34B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Yi-1.5-34B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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