Model comparison

GPT-5 Nano vs Qwen3.7 Flash

Qwen3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.5

Rank #241 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

39.9

Rank #156 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Nano scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.7 Flash leads 48.9 to 35.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 69.4% for GPT-5 Nano and 82.3% for Qwen3.7 Flash.
  • Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper at $0.03 / $0.13 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.40 for GPT-5 Nano.
  • Qwen3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 400K.

Side by side

GPT-5 Nano and Qwen3.7 Flash specifications
GPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.539.9
Released2025-08-072026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K1M
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.05$0.03
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.13
Results tracked497

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 33.6 (#254), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)34.8%—
WeirdML38.1%—
LMArena Coding1351—
ALE-Bench718.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 25.8 (#106), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
Terminal-Bench21.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard51.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Flash leads

GPT-5 Nano: 16.3 (#306), Qwen3.7 Flash: 28.2 (#108)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
Chess Puzzles27%23%
Mystery Game Puzzles9%15%
Epoch Capabilities Index139.38144.64
ARC-AGI-22.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark62.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)—43.8%
ARC-AGI-120.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1328—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA7.9%—
ForecastBench59.1—

Math Qwen3.7 Flash leads

GPT-5 Nano: 29.4 (#241), Qwen3.7 Flash: 38.3 (#140)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)20%19.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.1%86.7%
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
ProofBench12%—
Omni-MATH54.6%—
LMArena Math1317—
MATH Level 595.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)8.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Flash leads

GPT-5 Nano: 35.9 (#178), Qwen3.7 Flash: 48.9 (#75)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
GPQA Diamond69.4%82.3%
SimpleQA Verified11.7%—
MMLU-Pro77.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—
GPQA (HELM)67.9%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#108), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision1159—
VPCT37.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 45.3 (#172), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Non-English1313—
LMArena Chinese1356—
LMArena German1327—
LMArena Japanese1226—
LMArena Korean1269—
LMArena Russian1296—
LMArena Spanish1360—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 75.0 (#79), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
IFEval93.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1306—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#281), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1312—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 39.1 (#249), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Text1320—
LMArena Creative Writing1249—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing705—
WildBench80.6%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1311—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Nano better than Qwen3.7 Flash?

Qwen3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Nano or Qwen3.7 Flash?

Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.13 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Nano lists at $0.05 and $0.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Nano and Qwen3.7 Flash share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Flash has 7.

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