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Model comparison

GPT-5 Nano vs Qwen2.5-Max

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.1

Rank #142 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Nano scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 55.6 to 39.4.

Side by side

GPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.440.1
Released2025-08-072025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked4827

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5-Max leads

GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.2 (#118)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding13511359
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)34.8%—
WeirdML38.1%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
ALE-Bench718.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
Terminal-Bench21.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard51.5%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads

GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291), Qwen2.5-Max: 24.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts13291360
Epoch Capabilities Index139.39132.54
ARC-AGI-22.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark62.2%—
ARC-AGI-120.7%—
Chess Puzzles27%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles9%—
DTBench62.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
LMCA7.9%—
ForecastBench59.1—
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Qwen2.5-Max leads

GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.3 (#162)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math13181369
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)20%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.1%—
ProofBench12%—
Omni-MATH54.6%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%
MATH Level 595.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)8.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.8 (#181)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Expert13211337
GPQA Diamond69.4%—
SimpleQA Verified11.7%—
MMLU-Pro77.8%—
Confabulations—21.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—
GPQA (HELM)67.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Vision1159—
VPCT37.2%—

Multilingual Qwen2.5-Max leads

GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.3 (#140)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English13131352
LMArena Chinese13551382
LMArena German13291350
LMArena Korean12691304
LMArena Russian12961353
LMArena Spanish13601377
LMArena French—1396
LMArena Japanese—1299

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.5 (#147)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following13061335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%
IFEval93.2%—

Long Context Qwen2.5-Max leads

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.3 (#137)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query13131358
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Max leads

GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.6 (#141)

BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text13201367
LMArena Creative Writing12501339
LMArena Multi-Turn13111364
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing705—
WildBench80.6%—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Nano better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 Nano or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.2 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Nano and Qwen2.5-Max share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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