Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Qwen1.5-32B

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 33.0 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.2% for GPT-4 and 42% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
GPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.130.5
Released2023-03-142024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked3821

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct46%32.3%
LMArena Coding12541155
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%42%
WeirdML12.4%—
HumanEval+79.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts12411130
Chess Puzzles4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA17.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index125.89—
ForecastBench57.8—
HellaSwag95.3%—
WinoGrande87.5%—

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math12691155
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
MATH Level 523%—
GSM8K92%—

Knowledge GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond35.7%30.7%
LMArena Expert12111126
MMLU86.4%74.4%
TriviaQA84.8%—

Multilingual GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English12461106
LMArena Chinese12421177
LMArena French12831101
LMArena German12511058
LMArena Japanese12091027
LMArena Korean11841008
LMArena Russian12511073
LMArena Spanish12611089

Instruction Following GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following12411116

Long Context GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query12441146

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text12631137
LMArena Creative Writing12441083
LMArena Multi-Turn12571140
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4 or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.6 vs 31.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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