Model comparison

GPT-5 Nano vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

GPT-5 Nano has enough public results to be ranked (#234); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Nano and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) specifications
GPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.4—
Released2025-08-072024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked486

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)34.8%—
WeirdML38.1%—
LMArena Coding1351—
ALE-Bench718.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Terminal-Bench21.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard51.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Epoch Capabilities Index139.39112.93
ARC-AGI-22.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark62.2%—
ARC-AGI-120.7%—
Chess Puzzles27%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1329—
Mystery Game Puzzles9%—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA7.9%—
ForecastBench59.1—
HellaSwag—76.8%
WinoGrande—72.9%

Math Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)20%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.1%—
ProofBench12%—
Omni-MATH54.6%—
LMArena Math1318—
MATH Level 595.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)8.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
GPQA Diamond69.4%—
SimpleQA Verified11.7%—
MMLU-Pro77.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—
GPQA (HELM)67.9%—
LMArena Expert1321—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.9%
MMLU—68%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Vision1159—
VPCT37.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Non-English1313—
LMArena Chinese1355—
LMArena German1329—
LMArena Korean1269—
LMArena Russian1296—
LMArena Spanish1360—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
IFEval93.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1306—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1313—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Text1320—
LMArena Creative Writing1250—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing705—
WildBench80.6%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1311—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Nano better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

GPT-5 Nano has enough public results to be ranked (#234); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Nano and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.

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