Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-5.5 Instant vs Qwen3 Max

GPT-5.5 Instant and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI

42.5

Rank #99 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #82 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 Max in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 Max leads 37.6 to 26.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 82.5% for GPT-5.5 Instant and 72.6% for Qwen3 Max.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.543.5
Released2026-05-052025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked2733

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73), Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14331456
SciCode48.6%—
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Instant: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149), Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
Chess Puzzles12%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14261448
Epoch Capabilities Index142.48142.41
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
CritPt0%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LMCA—28.3%

Math Qwen3 Max leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241), Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26.3%18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.1%73.3%
LMArena Math14201447
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Too close to call

GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond82.5%72.6%
LMArena Expert14091457
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1250—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual Too close to call

GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76), Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14171429
LMArena Chinese14571479
LMArena French14281450
LMArena German14101463
LMArena Japanese14081399
LMArena Korean13931397
LMArena Russian14301428
LMArena Spanish14301463

Instruction Following Too close to call

GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94), Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14071420

Long Context GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query14221439
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81), Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwen3 Max
LMArena Text14191439
LMArena Creative Writing14201401
LMArena Multi-Turn14341446

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 Instant better than Qwen3 Max?

GPT-5.5 Instant and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-5.5 Instant or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.7 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Instant and Qwen3 Max share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Instant has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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