Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.9 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for GPT-4 and 56.1% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $60 for GPT-4.
  • Qwen3 8B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.
  • Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4Qwen3 8B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.133.7
Released2023-03-142025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K131K
Max output8K8K
Input $ / M tokens$30$0.18
Output $ / M tokens$60$0.70
Results tracked3811

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 8B leads

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%
WeirdML12.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46%—
LMArena Coding1254—
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%—
HumanEval+79.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
Chess Puzzles4%5%
DTBench62.7%59.7%
LMCA17.1%8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index125.89136.17
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1241—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%—
ForecastBench57.8—
HellaSwag95.3%—
WinoGrande87.5%—

Math Qwen3 8B leads

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%56.1%
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 523%—
GSM8K92%—

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond35.7%56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
LMArena Expert1211—
MMLU86.4%—
TriviaQA84.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English1246—
LMArena Chinese1242—
LMArena French1283—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1209—
LMArena Korean1184—
LMArena Russian1251—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1244—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4Qwen3 8B
LMArena Text1263—
LMArena Creative Writing1244—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—
LMArena Multi-Turn1257—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; GPT-4 lists at $30 and $60.

Is GPT-4 or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 8B does, with 131K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Qwen3 8B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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