Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Qwen3-4B

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-4B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MathArena Final-Answer Competitions: 94.3% for GPT-5.5 and 38.5% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Qwen3-4B specifications
GPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index63.431.9
Released2026-04-232025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked716

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
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 GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles54%4%
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
CritPt27.1%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond94%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%5.7%
SimpleQA Verified63%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1467—
LMArena Chinese1533—
LMArena French1486—
LMArena German1480—
LMArena Japanese1498—
LMArena Korean1460—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1472—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Qwen3-4B?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Qwen3-4B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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