Model comparison
o3-mini vs Qwen Plus
o3-mini and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.7 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. o3-mini scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen Plus in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 16.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 76.9% for o3-mini and 17.8% for Qwen Plus.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o3-mini.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| o3-mini | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.7 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-20 | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 100K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.10 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4.40 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 51 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-mini leads
o3-mini: 40.8 (#132), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1378 | 1328 |
| Aider Polyglot | 60.4% | — |
| SciCode | 39.8% | — |
| GSO | 1.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 82.7% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o3-mini: 29.6 (#84), Qwen Plus: —
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 22.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
o3-mini: 16.3 (#305), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1366 | 1317 |
| DTBench | 68.8% | 81.1% |
| LMCA | 19% | 24% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 22.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 34.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 17% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 70.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.34 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.6 | — |
| LiveBench | 75.9% | — |
Math o3-mini leads
o3-mini: 28.1 (#244), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 76.9% | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1396 | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | 96.5% | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 12.4% | 1.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 18.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 77.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge o3-mini leads
o3-mini: 38.3 (#146), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 77% | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1364 | 1328 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 15.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 17.9% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
o3-mini: 45.7 (#164), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1319 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1379 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1286 | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | 1304 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1334 | — |
| LMArena German | 1303 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1321 | — |
Instruction Following o3-mini leads
o3-mini: 75.1 (#72), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1337 | 1303 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 84.4% | — |
Long Context Qwen Plus leads
o3-mini: 33.8 (#256), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1343 | 1324 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50% | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads
o3-mini: 50.3 (#182), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | o3-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1337 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1286 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1320 | 1336 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 61.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 50.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is o3-mini better than Qwen Plus?
o3-mini and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.7 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, o3-mini or Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; o3-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.
Is o3-mini or Qwen Plus better for coding?
o3-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do o3-mini and Qwen Plus share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3-mini has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.