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Qwen2.5 3B Instruct vs Yi 6B
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Winner summary
Yi 6B wins on 4/6 benchmarks
Yi 6B wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · reasoning.
Category leads
general·Yi 6Bknowledge·Yi 6Blanguage·Qwen2.5 3B Instructmath·Qwen2.5 3B Instructreasoning·Yi 6B
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
#199 by perf·no signal
Yi 6B
#181 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
U
Unknown
private · undisclosed
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
Qwen2.5 3B InstructYi 6B
BBH (HuggingFace)
Yi 6B leads by +9.7
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
25.8
Yi 6B
35.5
GPQA
Yi 6B leads by +12.5
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
3.0
Yi 6B
15.6
IFEval
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct leads by +34.3
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
64.8
Yi 6B
30.5
MATH Level 5
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct leads by +31.6
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
36.8
Yi 6B
5.1
MMLU-PRO
Yi 6B leads by +12.9
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
25.1
Yi 6B
37.9
MUSR
Yi 6B leads by +2.1
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
7.6
Yi 6B
9.7
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 3B Instruct | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 25.8 | 35.5 |
GPQA | 3.0 | 15.6 |
IFEval | 64.8 | 30.5 |
MATH Level 5 | 36.8 | 5.1 |
MMLU-PRO | 25.1 | 37.9 |
MUSR | 7.6 | 9.7 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5 3B Instruct | — | — | — | — |
U Yi 6B | — | — | — | — |