Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Qwen1.5-7B

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.5

Rank #316 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #270 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.8 to 29.8.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
GPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.530.8
Released2024-05-132024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7213

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-7B leads

GPT-4o: 25.1 (#323), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding12971107
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 20.8 (#133), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#338), Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12811066
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 Qwen1.5-7B leads

GPT-4o: 10.2 (#303), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math12851080
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 Too close to call

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#235), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert12501055
MMLU88.1%62.6%
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
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), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.4 (#181), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English12831058
LMArena Chinese12771140
LMArena Russian12861006
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.8 (#202), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following12781058
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#174), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query12891090
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.8 (#160), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text13001084
LMArena Creative Writing12911035
LMArena Multi-Turn13021061
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.6 versus 25.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Qwen1.5-7B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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