Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-5.4 mini vs QwQ-32B

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI

44.8

Rank #69 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.4

Rank #153 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 mini scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.4 mini leads 51.4 to 37.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.9% for GPT-5.4 mini and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.839.4
Released2026-03-172024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$4.50—
Results tracked4636

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

Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 45.0 (#67), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14381333
FrontierCode27%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1397—
SciCode49.9%—
WeirdML60.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench1,189—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 29.6 (#74), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
DeepResearch Bench36.3%—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 30.3 (#77), QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles24%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14241326
Epoch Capabilities Index148.83137.6
ForecastBench5758.3
ARC-AGI-218.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)61.8%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt10%—
Thematic Generalization61.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles11%—
DTBench80%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA40.8%—
LiveBench—72%

Math GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 45.4 (#63), QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%59.2%
LMArena Math14181359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 49.8%—
ProofBench21%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)28.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 51.4 (#62), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond86.9%65.3%
LMArena Expert14341323
SimpleQA Verified29.4%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 39.0 (#51), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1245—

Multilingual GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 52.1 (#94), QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14051306
LMArena Chinese14461378
LMArena French14401337
LMArena German14071313
LMArena Japanese13751263
LMArena Korean13691278
LMArena Russian14171297
LMArena Spanish14031353

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 74.3 (#99), QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14051297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 42.9 (#107), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query14071308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 64.2 (#56), QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwQ-32B
LMArena Text14111329
LMArena Creative Writing13701288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16651257
LMArena Multi-Turn14291314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 mini better than QwQ-32B?

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.4 mini or QwQ-32B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.0 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 mini and QwQ-32B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 mini has 46 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

Related comparisons

Go deeper