Model comparison
GPT-4.5 vs Qwen Plus
GPT-4.5 and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen Plus in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 13.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 68.7% for GPT-4.5 and 48.1% for Qwen Plus.
Side by side
| GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.2 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2025-02-27 | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1396 | 1328 |
| Aider Polyglot | 44.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 39.4% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 75.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97), Qwen Plus: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1403 | 1317 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 34.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 10.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 71.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 64.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.74 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 69% | — |
Math GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1412 | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | 78.6% | 65.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 69.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 68.7% | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1394 | 1328 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71), Qwen Plus: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1195 | — |
| VPCT | 45% | — |
Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1413 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1421 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | 1419 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | — |
| LMArena German | 1457 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1392 | — |
Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1303 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 72.3% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1324 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 63.9% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1394 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1336 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 75.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1258 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 61.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.5 better than Qwen Plus?
GPT-4.5 and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is GPT-4.5 or Qwen Plus better for coding?
GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.5 and Qwen Plus share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.