Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Qwen1.5 4b Chat

GPT-4 and Qwen1.5 4b Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 28.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Qwen1.5 4b Chat Alibaba (Qwen)

28.8

Rank #322 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5 4b Chat in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5 4b Chat leads 30.4 to 10.8.
  • Qwen1.5 4b Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Qwen1.5 4b Chat specifications
GPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.128.8
Released2023-03-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked3813

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 29.1 (#308)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Coding1254999
WeirdML12.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%—
HumanEval+79.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —

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

Reasoning Too close to call

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 18.5 (#279)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Hard Prompts1241976
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 4b Chat leads

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.4 (#234)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Math12691026
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
MATH Level 523%—
GSM8K92%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5 4b Chat leads

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 26.7 (#255)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Expert1211980
GPQA Diamond35.7%—
MMLU86.4%—
TriviaQA84.8%—

Multilingual GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 24.1 (#290)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Non-English1246979
LMArena Chinese12421024
LMArena German1251902
LMArena Russian1251952
LMArena French1283—
LMArena Japanese1209—
LMArena Korean1184—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 49.0 (#300)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Instruction Following1241978

Long Context GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.1 (#290)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Longer Query1244988

Writing & Preference GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 23.8 (#309)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Text1263997
LMArena Creative Writing1244969
LMArena Multi-Turn1257977
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Qwen1.5 4b Chat?

GPT-4 and Qwen1.5 4b Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 28.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4 or Qwen1.5 4b Chat better for coding?

GPT-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.6 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Qwen1.5 4b Chat share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5 4b Chat has 13.

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