Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.3

Rank #281 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #82 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 Max leads 37.6 to 8.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.7% for GPT-4 Turbo and 73.3% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.343.5
Released2023-11-062025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K262K
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$10$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$30$6
Results tracked3633

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247), Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding12681456
WeirdML18%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%—
ALE-Bench—370.45
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
METR Time Horizons36.7%—
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311), Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
Chess Puzzles6%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts12511448
DTBench61.6%82.1%
LMCA9.8%28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25142.41
SimpleBench25.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
ForecastBench59.4—

Math Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316), Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%73.3%
LMArena Math12721447
MATH Level 546.7%97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond46.6%72.6%
LMArena Expert12231457
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
Confabulations28.4%—
MMLU81.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1090—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211), Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English12451429
LMArena Chinese12421479
LMArena French12751450
LMArena German12591463
LMArena Japanese11941399
LMArena Korean11871397
LMArena Russian12591428
LMArena Spanish12601463

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211), Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following12501420

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query12541439
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201), Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Text12721439
LMArena Creative Writing12691401
LMArena Multi-Turn12671446

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

Is GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Qwen3 Max share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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