Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Qwen Plus

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

36.7

Rank #204 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen Plus in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 27.6 to 10.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 17.8% for Qwen Plus.
  • Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.536.7
Released2025-04-142024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output33K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$1.20
Results tracked4720

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Category by category

Coding Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Coding13671328
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%63.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13491317
DTBench68.8%81.1%
LMCA21.1%24%
ARC-AGI-20%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%17.8%
LMArena Math13431326
MATH Level 587.3%65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
GPQA Diamond65.8%48.1%
LMArena Expert13381328
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Too close to call

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English13181310
LMArena Chinese13291347
LMArena Japanese12911251
LMArena Russian13241323
LMArena French1357—
LMArena German1349—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13321303
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query13441325
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Text13411326
LMArena Creative Writing13001293
LMArena Multi-Turn13541336
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen Plus share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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