Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Qwen Plus

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen Plus in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 17.8% for Qwen Plus.
  • Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.637.1
Released2025-04-142024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output33K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$1.20
Results tracked4720

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Category by category

Coding Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Coding13671328
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%63.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13491317
DTBench68.8%81.1%
LMCA21.1%24%
ARC-AGI-20%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math Too close to call

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%17.8%
LMArena Math13431326
MATH Level 587.3%65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
GPQA Diamond65.8%48.1%
LMArena Expert13381328
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Too close to call

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English13181310
LMArena Chinese13291347
LMArena Japanese12901251
LMArena Russian13241323
LMArena French1358—
LMArena German1351—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13331303
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query13441324
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen Plus
LMArena Text13401326
LMArena Creative Writing13001293
LMArena Multi-Turn13541336
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen Plus share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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