Model comparison

GPT-5.5 Pro vs Qwen1.5-72B

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI

64.3

Rank #7 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.5 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 Pro leads 83.8 to 30.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.9% for GPT-5.5 Pro and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 Pro and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
GPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index64.330.3
Released2026-04-232024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$180—
Results tracked1422

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
LMArena Coding—1166
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 73.6 (#7), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
SimpleBench76.9%—
ARC-AGI-196.5%—
CritPt30.6%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1148
DTBench96%—
LMCA53.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.45—

Math GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 83.8 (#8), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 478%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
LMArena Math—1164
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)52.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)39.6%—

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 64.2 (#17), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond93.9%28.8%
LMArena Expert—1136

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English—1135
LMArena Chinese—1186
LMArena French—1158
LMArena German—1084
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1049
LMArena Russian—1104
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1142

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1157

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1137
LMArena Multi-Turn—1160

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 Pro better than Qwen1.5-72B?

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Pro and Qwen1.5-72B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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