Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Qwen1.5-32B

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.5

Rank #316 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 30.5 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 61.1% for GPT-4o and 42% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
GPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.530.0
Released2024-05-132024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7221

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-32B leads

GPT-4o: 25.1 (#323), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%32.3%
LMArena Coding12971155
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%42%
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 20.8 (#133), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#338), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts12811131
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

GPT-4o: 10.2 (#303), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math12851155
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#235), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond49.2%30.7%
LMArena Expert12501126
MMLU88.1%74.4%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 33.9 (#85), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.4 (#181), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English12831106
LMArena Chinese12771176
LMArena French13031100
LMArena German12821058
LMArena Japanese12571027
LMArena Korean12341007
LMArena Russian12861073
LMArena Spanish12921089

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.8 (#202), Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following12781116
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#174), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query12891146
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.8 (#160), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text13001137
LMArena Creative Writing12911083
LMArena Multi-Turn13021140
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen1.5-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.1 versus 25.1 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

Related comparisons

Go deeper