Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Qwen3.5-9B

GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.6 vs 33.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 33.3 to 14.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 61.7% for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.15 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 262K.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.633.8
Released2025-04-142026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output33K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$0.15
Results tracked4710

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
SciCode40.4%27.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
CritPt0%0.3%
Chess Puzzles7%12%
DTBench68.8%71.2%
LMCA21.1%24.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01139.46
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—

Math Qwen3.5-9B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%61.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond65.8%79%
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1358—
LMArena German1351—
LMArena Japanese1290—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
IFEval90.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1333—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1340—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Qwen3.5-9B?

GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.6 vs 33.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3.5-9B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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