Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Qwen Turbo

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Turbo costs 129× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Qwen Turbo Alibaba (Qwen)

26.8

Rank #329 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen Turbo in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 leads 81.5 to 14.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for GPT-5.5 and 6.1% for Qwen Turbo.
  • Qwen Turbo is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Qwen Turbo specifications
GPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index63.426.8
Released2026-04-232024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$30$0.20
Results tracked713

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13), Qwen Turbo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1512—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Qwen Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
OSWorld 2.013%—
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
DeepResearch Bench54%—
PostTrainBench27.2%—
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
LMArena Search1242—
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#8), Qwen Turbo: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index159.25—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9), Qwen Turbo: 14.5 (#291)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14), Qwen Turbo: 22.2 (#267)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
GPQA Diamond94%41.8%
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11), Qwen Turbo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19), Qwen Turbo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
LMArena Non-English1467—
LMArena Chinese1535—
LMArena French1486—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1498—
LMArena Korean1461—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1469—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 77.7 (#18), Qwen Turbo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Qwen Turbo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13), Qwen Turbo: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen Turbo
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1477—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Qwen Turbo?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Turbo costs 129× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or Qwen Turbo?

Qwen Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Qwen Turbo share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Turbo has 3.

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