Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Qwen Plus

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen Plus in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 9.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 64.5% for GPT-4o and 81.1% for Qwen Plus.
  • Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen Plus specifications
GPT-4oQwen Plus
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.637.1
Released2024-05-132024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output16K33K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.20
Results tracked7220

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Category by category

Coding Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
LMArena Coding12971328
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Qwen Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts12811317
DTBench64.5%81.1%
LMCA16.6%24%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.3%
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%17.8%
LMArena Math12851326
MATH Level 553.3%65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
GPQA Diamond49.2%48.1%
LMArena Expert12501328
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Qwen Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English12831310
LMArena Chinese12771347
LMArena Japanese12571251
LMArena Russian12861323
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following12781303
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query12891324
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Plus
LMArena Text13001326
LMArena Creative Writing12921293
LMArena Multi-Turn13021336
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is GPT-4o or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Qwen Plus share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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