Model comparison
GPT-5.4 Pro vs Qwen3 32B
GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.8 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 55× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 32B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 Pro leads 71.0 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 58.6% for GPT-5.4 Pro and 5% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $180 for GPT-5.4 Pro.
- GPT-5.4 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 58.8 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2026-03-05 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $30 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $180 | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.4 Pro leads
GPT-5.4 Pro: 42.6 (#89), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| WeirdML | 57.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning GPT-5.4 Pro leads
GPT-5.4 Pro: 71.0 (#10), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 30% | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 58.6% | 5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.12 | 138.51 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 83.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 74.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 94.5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 23.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
Math GPT-5.4 Pro leads
GPT-5.4 Pro: 72.0 (#17), Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 82.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 58.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 50% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5.4 Pro leads
GPT-5.4 Pro: 68.3 (#6), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 94.6% | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.3% | 5.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 44.3% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1305 |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Pro | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1331 |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.4 Pro better than Qwen3 32B?
GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.8 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 55× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 Pro or Qwen3 32B?
Qwen3 32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 Pro lists at $30 and $180.
Is GPT-5.4 Pro or Qwen3 32B better for coding?
GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.6 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-5.4 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 Pro and Qwen3 32B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 Pro has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.