Model comparison

GPT-5.4 Pro vs QwQ-32B

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI

58.9

Rank #18 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 Pro leads 70.7 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 58.6% for GPT-5.4 Pro and 5% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 Pro and QwQ-32B specifications
GPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.939.8
Released2026-03-052024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$180—
Results tracked1636

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 43.2 (#90), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
WeirdML57.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Reasoning GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 70.7 (#13), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles58.6%5%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.93137.6
ARC-AGI-283.3%—
SimpleBench74.1%—
ARC-AGI-194.5%—
CritPt30%—
EnigmaEval23.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1325
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 72.4 (#22), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 68.3 (#7), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond94.6%65.3%
Humanity's Last Exam44.3%—
SimpleQA Verified46.3%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.3%—
LMArena Expert—1324

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1305
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Text—1329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

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

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.2 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 Pro has 16 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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