Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Qwen1.5-72B

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.4 leads 65.3 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.3% for GPT-5.4 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
GPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index59.430.8
Released2026-03-052024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked6822

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding14971165
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
WeirdML77.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
MirrorCode15.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851148
ARC-AGI-274%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench94.4%—
LMCA52%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81—
ForecastBench59.5—

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond93.3%28.8%
LMArena Expert15071136
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14651135
LMArena Chinese15191186
LMArena French14931159
LMArena German14721084
LMArena Japanese14851061
LMArena Korean14481050
LMArena Russian14801104
LMArena Spanish14541110

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14691141

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14731157
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14691166
LMArena Creative Writing14391137
LMArena Multi-Turn14821160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41272—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.4 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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