Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.8 Max vs Yi-1.5-34B

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3.8 Max 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 Qwen3.8 Max leads 61.7 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.7% for Qwen3.8 Max and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.
  • Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)01.AI
Noometry Index56.830.6
Released2026-08-022024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output131K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked3921

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding15021169
DeepSWE57.5%—
LMArena WebDev1674—
FrontierSWE17.8%—
SciCode53.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14), Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
APEX-Agents63.3%—
τ²-bench Banking55.1%—
GDP.pdf23.2%—

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14961160
NYT Connections (extended)88.3%—
CritPt20%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
Mystery Game Puzzles38%—
DTBench92%—
LMCA46.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.41—

Math Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math14991182
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)74.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 446.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench58%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond92.7%32%
LMArena Expert15071144
SimpleQA Verified47.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75), Yi-1.5-34B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly20%—

Multilingual Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14721121
LMArena Chinese15381213
LMArena French15031156
LMArena German14831111
LMArena Japanese14671021
LMArena Korean14611005
LMArena Russian14811091
LMArena Spanish14921121

Instruction Following Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following14791139

Long Context Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query14891143

Writing & Preference Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14831173
LMArena Creative Writing14791135
LMArena Multi-Turn14891153

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3.8 Max or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.8 Max and Yi-1.5-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.8 Max has 39 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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