Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Qwen Turbo

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Turbo costs 50× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4o's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Qwen Turbo Alibaba (Qwen)

27.1

Rank #335 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Turbo in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4o leads 28.8 to 22.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 49.2% for GPT-4o and 41.8% for Qwen Turbo.
  • Qwen Turbo is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Qwen Turbo accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen Turbo specifications
GPT-4oQwen Turbo
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.627.1
Released2024-05-132024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output16K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.20
Results tracked723

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Qwen Turbo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1297—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Qwen Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Qwen Turbo: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Qwen Turbo leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Qwen Turbo: 15.3 (#297)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%6.1%
MATH Level 553.3%56.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
LMArena Math1285—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Qwen Turbo: 22.2 (#272)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
GPQA Diamond49.2%41.8%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Qwen Turbo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Qwen Turbo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Qwen Turbo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1278—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Qwen Turbo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1289—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Qwen Turbo: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen Turbo
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1302—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Qwen Turbo?

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Turbo costs 50× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4o's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Qwen Turbo?

Qwen Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Turbo does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Qwen Turbo share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Turbo has 3.

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