Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Qwen2-72B

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

29.5

Rank #294 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen2-72B in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 33.0 to 16.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 39.1% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.529.5
Released2025-04-142024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$1.60—
Results tracked4726

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
WeirdML37.6%11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%38.5%
LMArena Coding13671196
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts13491191
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01125.27
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Math13431235
MATH Level 587.3%39.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond65.8%40.8%
LMArena Expert13381171
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English13181176
LMArena Chinese13291240
LMArena French13571169
LMArena German13491151
LMArena Japanese12911111
LMArena Korean12981083
LMArena Russian13241169
LMArena Spanish13191168

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following13321181
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context Qwen2-72B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query13441193
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Text13411203
LMArena Creative Writing13001181
LMArena Multi-Turn13541195
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Qwen2-72B?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

GPT-4.1 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.4 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen2-72B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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