Model comparison

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

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

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.3 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 45.3% for GPT-4o and 16.4% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • GPT-4o accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
GPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.633.4
Released2024-05-132024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K33K
Max output16K29K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$10$1
Results tracked7231

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%9%
Aider Polyglot45.3%16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%49%
LiveBench Coding51.4%56.9%
LMArena Coding12971276
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%58%
HumanEval+87.2%87.2%
MBPP+72.2%77%
SWE-bench Verified31%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
CadEval26%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%42.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811251
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97119.49
LiveBench55.3%46.2%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LMCA16.6%—
ForecastBench57.7—
HellaSwag—83%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Math49.5%46.6%
LMArena Math12851251
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert12501221
MMLU88.1%79.1%
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English12831205
LMArena Chinese12771222
LMArena Russian12861228
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%58.7%
LMArena Instruction Following12781223
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query12891251
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text13001230
LMArena Creative Writing12921174
LMArena Multi-Turn13021222
LiveBench Language47.6%23.3%
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o 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-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

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

GPT-4o scores higher on coding benchmarks: 24.8 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4o does, with 128K tokens against 33K.

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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