Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Qwen Max

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.7 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.7

Rank #215 Confirmed

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.4

Rank #226 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen Max in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Max leads 24.1 to 11.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 52.4% for GPT-4.1 and 21.8% for Qwen Max.
  • Qwen Max is cheaper at $1.60 / $6.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
  • GPT-4.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

GPT-4.1Qwen Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.734.4
Released2025-04-142024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M33K
Max output33K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$1.60
Output $ / M tokens$8$6.40
Results tracked5223

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#288)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
Aider Polyglot52.4%21.8%
LMArena Coding13911288
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
WeirdML39%—
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334), Qwen Max: 24.1 (#154)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts13841270
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
DTBench68.3%—
LMCA25.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index136.79—
ForecastBench61.5—

Math Too close to call

GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269), Qwen Max: 21.0 (#272)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202538.3%16.1%
LMArena Math13691275
MATH Level 583%67.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.5%1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6%—
Omni-MATH47.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#222)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
GPQA Diamond66.9%56.1%
LMArena Expert13641248
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench72%—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128), Qwen Max: 42.0 (#197)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
LMArena Non-English13701263
LMArena Chinese13821254
LMArena French13831329
LMArena German13801254
LMArena Japanese13201205
LMArena Korean13391141
LMArena Russian13771274
LMArena Spanish13751290

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148), Qwen Max: 66.7 (#203)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following13671262
IFEval83.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#175)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query13851289

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120), Qwen Max: 48.0 (#200)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen Max
LMArena Text13831282
LMArena Creative Writing13631248
LMArena Multi-Turn13981277
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Qwen Max?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.7 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.60 per million input tokens and $6.40 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

Is GPT-4.1 or Qwen Max better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Qwen Max share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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