Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 39.1 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 64.5% for GPT-4o and 84.3% for Qwen3.5 122B-A10B.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is cheaper at $0.40 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B specifications
GPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.642.1
Released2024-05-132026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K262K
Max output16K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$10$3.20
Results tracked7227

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding12971436
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%
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: 21.0 (#141), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
CritPt0%0.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811421
DTBench64.5%84.3%
LMCA16.6%32.2%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math12851432
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 Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%11.2%
LMArena Expert12501432
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision11371245
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English12831400
LMArena Chinese12771462
LMArena French13041442
LMArena German12821426
LMArena Japanese12571367
LMArena Korean12341352
LMArena Russian12861400
LMArena Spanish12921424

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following12781399
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query12891410
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text13001417
LMArena Creative Writing12921368
LMArena Multi-Turn13021416
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is GPT-4o or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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