Model comparison

GPT-4.5 vs Qwen Plus

GPT-4.5 and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

37.2

Rank #208 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen Plus in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 13.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 68.7% for GPT-4.5 and 48.1% for Qwen Plus.

Side by side

GPT-4.5 and Qwen Plus specifications
GPT-4.5Qwen Plus
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.237.1
Released2025-02-272024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked4220

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
LMArena Coding13961328
Aider Polyglot44.9%—
WeirdML39.4%—
LiveBench Coding75.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97), Qwen Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
Cybench17.5%—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts14031317
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench34.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.3%
ARC-AGI-110.3%—
EnigmaEval3.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning71.1%—
DTBench—81.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis64.3%—
LMCA—24%
Epoch Capabilities Index136.74—
ForecastBench61.7—
LiveBench69%—

Math GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%17.8%
LMArena Math14121326
MATH Level 578.6%65.3%
LiveBench Math69.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
GPQA Diamond68.7%48.1%
LMArena Expert13941328
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
Confabulations13.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71), Qwen Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
LMArena Vision1195—
VPCT45%—

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
LMArena Non-English14131310
LMArena Chinese14211347
LMArena Japanese14161251
LMArena Russian14191323
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1457—
LMArena Korean1392—

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14041303
LiveBench Instruction Following72.3%—

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query14061324
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Qwen Plus
LMArena Text14171326
LMArena Creative Writing13941293
LMArena Multi-Turn14441336
Short-Story Creative Writing75.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1258—
LiveBench Language61.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.5 better than Qwen Plus?

GPT-4.5 and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4.5 or Qwen Plus better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.5 and Qwen Plus share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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