Model comparison
o1-mini vs Qwen Max
o1-mini and Qwen Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.0 vs 34.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen Max in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Max leads 25.1 to 8.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 46.9% for o1-mini and 16.1% for Qwen Max.
Side by side
| o1-mini | Qwen Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 34.7 |
| Released | 2024-09-12 | 2024-04-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6.40 |
| Results tracked | 39 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | 21.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1288 |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), Qwen Max: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Max leads
o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1269 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |
Math o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | 1% |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1248 |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1254 |
| LMArena French | 1293 | 1330 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | 1290 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1262 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1288 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1277 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is o1-mini better than Qwen Max?
o1-mini and Qwen Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.0 vs 34.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is o1-mini or Qwen Max better for coding?
o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen Max share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.