Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Qwen3-1.7B

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 8.1% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.526.2
Released2025-04-142025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$1.60—
Results tracked474

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%28.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-1.7B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles7%0%
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%8.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond65.8%38%
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1357—
LMArena German1349—
LMArena Japanese1291—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
IFEval90.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1332—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1341—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Qwen3-1.7B?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3-1.7B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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