Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-5.5 Instant vs QwQ-32B

GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI

42.5

Rank #99 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.4

Rank #153 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher in 6 categories and QwQ-32B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.5 Instant leads 48.9 to 37.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 82.5% for GPT-5.5 Instant and 65.3% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.539.4
Released2026-05-052024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2736

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14331333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
SciCode48.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149), QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles12%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14261326
Epoch Capabilities Index142.48137.6
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math QwQ-32B leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241), QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.1%59.2%
LMArena Math14201359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond82.5%65.3%
LMArena Expert14091323
Confabulations—15.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1250—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76), QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14171306
LMArena Chinese14571378
LMArena French14281337
LMArena German14101313
LMArena Japanese14081263
LMArena Korean13931278
LMArena Russian14301297
LMArena Spanish14301353

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94), QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14071297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query14221308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 Instant leads

GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81), QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

BenchmarkGPT-5.5 InstantQwQ-32B
LMArena Text14191329
LMArena Creative Writing14201288
LMArena Multi-Turn14341314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 Instant better than QwQ-32B?

GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.5 Instant or QwQ-32B better for coding?

GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.7 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Instant and QwQ-32B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Instant has 27 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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