Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen1.5 4b Chat

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Qwen1.5 4b Chat Alibaba (Qwen)

28.8

Rank #322 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5 4b Chat in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.8 to 18.5.
  • Qwen1.5 4b Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Qwen1.5 4b Chat specifications
GPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index65.028.8
Released2026-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6513

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 29.1 (#308)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Coding1498999
DeepSWE72.7%—
FrontierCode47.5%—
CursorBench41.7%—
LMArena WebDev1618—
FrontierSWE32.2%—
SciCode57.1%—
GSO76.5%—
WeirdML89.4%—
MirrorCode20%—
ALE-Bench2,177—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
APEX-Agents51.4%—
OSWorld 2.027.3%—
τ²-bench Banking46.9%—
PostTrainBench36.2%—
BALROG60%—
GBAEval52.6%—
GDP.pdf30.7%—
LMArena Search1257—
Vending-Bench 29,619—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 18.5 (#279)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Hard Prompts1484976
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
SimpleBench71.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.8%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt32.3%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
EnigmaEval37.1%—
EBR-Bench44.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA59.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench93.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index161.66—

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.4 (#234)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Math14741026
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 482.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench83%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 26.7 (#255)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Expert1516980
GPQA Diamond93.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 24.1 (#290)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Non-English1452979
LMArena Chinese15271024
LMArena German1476902
LMArena Russian1468952
LMArena French1477—
LMArena Japanese1471—
LMArena Korean1442—
LMArena Spanish1441—

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 49.0 (#300)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Instruction Following1482978

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.1 (#290)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Longer Query1480988

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 23.8 (#309)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Text1457997
LMArena Creative Writing1448969
LMArena Multi-Turn1460977
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Qwen1.5 4b Chat?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Qwen1.5 4b Chat better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Qwen1.5 4b Chat share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 65 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5 4b Chat has 13.

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