Model comparison
o1-mini vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 33.7 to 11.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 46.9% for o1-mini and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 28.6 |
| Released | 2024-09-12 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 39 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
o1-mini: 35.1 (#218), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
o1-mini: 24.3 (#112), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)
Reasoning Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 8.9 (#340), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 118.44 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |
Math o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 33.7 (#168), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 34.8 (#180), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
o1-mini: 43.8 (#177), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | — |
| LMArena French | 1292 | — |
| LMArena German | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1302 | — |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 67.0 (#200), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
o1-mini: 40.1 (#156), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1321 | — |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
o1-mini: 48.6 (#196), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is o1-mini better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is o1-mini or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (35.1 vs 35.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.