Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Qwen-VL Max

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#8); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Qwen-VL Max Alibaba (Qwen)

35.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-VL Max in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where GPT-5.5 leads 47.1 to 31.6.
  • Qwen-VL Max is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Qwen-VL Max specifications
GPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index63.435.3
Released2026-04-232024-01-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$30$3.20
Results tracked713

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13), Qwen-VL Max: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
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-VL Max: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
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-VL Max: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
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 Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9), Qwen-VL Max: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14), Qwen-VL Max: —

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

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11), Qwen-VL Max: 31.6 (#97)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Vision12971212
Video-MME—51.3%
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—
SpatialViz-Bench—32%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19), Qwen-VL Max: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
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-VL Max: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Qwen-VL Max: —

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

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13), Qwen-VL Max: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen-VL Max
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-VL Max?

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#8); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or Qwen-VL Max?

Qwen-VL Max is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 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 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Qwen-VL Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-VL Max has 3.

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