Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen2.5 Plus 1127

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #181 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 85.6 to 36.1.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 specifications
GPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index65.038.8
Released2026-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6514

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 38.5 (#175)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Coding14981314
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), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
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), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 25.9 (#141)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Hard Prompts14841299
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), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 36.1 (#174)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Math14741298
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), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 35.5 (#183)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Expert15161289
GPQA Diamond93.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 41.9 (#201)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Non-English14521265
LMArena Chinese15271314
LMArena German14761231
LMArena Japanese14711207
LMArena Russian14681271
LMArena French1477—
LMArena Korean1442—
LMArena Spanish1441—

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 67.2 (#199)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Instruction Following14821275

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 39.2 (#184)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Longer Query14801292

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 49.4 (#192)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolQwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Text14571299
LMArena Creative Writing14481262
LMArena Multi-Turn14601299
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Qwen2.5 Plus 1127?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 65 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 has 14.

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