Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-5 Mini vs Qwen Max

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen Max in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Mini leads 46.7 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 86.7% for GPT-5 Mini and 16.1% for Qwen Max.
  • GPT-5 Mini is cheaper at $0.25 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $1.60 / $6.40 for Qwen Max.
  • GPT-5 Mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

GPT-5 MiniQwen Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.834.7
Released2025-08-072024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K33K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$1.60
Output $ / M tokens$2$6.40
Results tracked6023

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
LMArena Coding14061288
SWE-bench Verified64.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)59.8%—
Aider Polyglot—21.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%—
SciCode39.2%—
WeirdML52.7%—
ALE-Bench799.77—
AlgoTune1.38—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
Terminal-Bench34.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.5%—
Vending-Bench 2-31.18—

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts13801269
ARC-AGI-24.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-154.3%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
EnigmaEval8.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles10%—
DTBench80.5%—
LMCA34.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.52—
ForecastBench61—

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%16.1%
LMArena Math13781275
MATH Level 597.8%67.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.2%1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
ProofBench9%—
Omni-MATH72.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
GPQA Diamond75%56.1%
LMArena Expert13791248
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%—
SimpleQA Verified21.6%—
MMLU-Pro83.5%—
Confabulations13.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%—
GPQA (HELM)75.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
LMArena Vision1202—
VPCT40.2%—

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
LMArena Non-English13631263
LMArena Chinese13851254
LMArena French13861330
LMArena German13661254
LMArena Japanese13411205
LMArena Korean13081142
LMArena Russian13621274
LMArena Spanish13551290

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following13571262
IFEval92.7%—

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query13551288

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen Max
LMArena Text13731282
LMArena Creative Writing13251248
LMArena Multi-Turn13631277
Short-Story Creative Writing83.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1313—
WildBench85.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Qwen Max?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Mini or Qwen Max?

GPT-5 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Qwen Max lists at $1.60 and $6.40.

Is GPT-5 Mini or Qwen Max better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Mini does, with 400K tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Mini and Qwen Max share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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