Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Qwen3-4B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-4B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 leads 55.0 to 29.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for GPT-5 and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Qwen3-4B specifications
GPT-5Qwen3-4B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.931.9
Released2025-08-072025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked696

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
LMArena Coding1436—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
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), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles37%4%
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1416—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond86.2%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%5.7%
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1419—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1397—
LMArena Chinese1422—
LMArena French1410—
LMArena German1416—
LMArena Japanese1409—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1399—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
IFEval87.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1399—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1406—
LMArena Creative Writing1365—
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1426—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Qwen3-4B?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Qwen3-4B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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