Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Qwen1.5 4b Chat

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 28.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #37 Confirmed

Qwen1.5 4b Chat Alibaba (Qwen)

28.3

Rank #319 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5 4b Chat in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5 leads 63.5 to 23.9.
  • Qwen1.5 4b Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Qwen1.5 4b Chat specifications
GPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.928.3
Released2025-08-07—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6913

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.7 (#39), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 28.6 (#305)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Coding1436999
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1417—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.0 (#53), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
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 (#55), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 17.7 (#277)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Hard Prompts1415976
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—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 54.6 (#36), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 27.9 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Math14061026
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: 56.5 (#37), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 26.2 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Expert1420980
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: 46.1 (#12), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.5 (#105), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 24.2 (#285)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Non-English1397979
LMArena Chinese14231024
LMArena German1415902
LMArena Russian1406952
LMArena French1409—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1361—
LMArena Spanish1398—

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 74.0 (#107), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 49.3 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Instruction Following1388979
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.1 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Longer Query1399988
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.5 (#63), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 23.9 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen1.5 4b Chat
LMArena Text1406997
LMArena Creative Writing1365969
LMArena Multi-Turn1426977
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Qwen1.5 4b Chat?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 28.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Qwen1.5 4b Chat better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 28.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Qwen1.5 4b Chat share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5 4b Chat has 13.

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