Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.3 to 10.8.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $60 for GPT-4.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B accepts more context: 33K tokens versus 8K.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
GPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.133.4
Released2023-03-142024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K33K
Max output8K29K
Input $ / M tokens$30$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$60$1
Results tracked3831

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct46%49%
LMArena Coding12541276
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%58%
HumanEval+79.3%87.2%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
WeirdML12.4%—
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts12411251
Epoch Capabilities Index125.89119.49
HellaSwag95.3%83%
WinoGrande87.5%80.8%
Chess Puzzles4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench62.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
LMCA17.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%—
ForecastBench57.8—
LiveBench—46.2%

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math12691251
GSM8K92%93%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
MATH Level 523%—

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert12111221
MMLU86.4%79.1%
GPQA Diamond35.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
TriviaQA84.8%—

Multilingual GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English12461205
LMArena Chinese12421222
LMArena Russian12511228
LMArena French1283—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1209—
LMArena Korean1184—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following12411223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query12441251

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text12631230
LMArena Creative Writing12441174
LMArena Multi-Turn12571222
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; GPT-4 lists at $30 and $60.

Is GPT-4 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

GPT-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.6 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B does, with 33K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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