Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Qwen1.5-110B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 35.1.
  • Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
GPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.934.2
Released2025-08-072024-04-25
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6920

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding14361184
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts14161168
ForecastBench61.457.7
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math14071185
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench18%—
Omni-MATH64.7%—
MATH Level 598.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert14191144
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English13971142
LMArena Chinese14221206
LMArena French14101151
LMArena German14161123
LMArena Japanese14091074
LMArena Korean13601044
LMArena Russian14061118
LMArena Spanish13991142

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following13881158
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query13991157
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text14061175
LMArena Creative Writing13651148
LMArena Multi-Turn14261160
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Qwen1.5-110B?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Qwen1.5-110B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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