Model comparison

o1-mini vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 27.2 to 8.8.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1-mini and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B specifications
o1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.042.1
Released2024-09-122026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked3927

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding13621436
Aider Polyglot32.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%
WeirdML36.3%—
LiveBench Coding48%—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+78.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
Cybench10%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331421
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench18.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
ARC-AGI-114%—
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
LiveBench Reasoning72.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA—32.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.82—
LiveBench57.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math13581432
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202546.9%—
LiveBench Math62%—
MATH Level 589.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Expert13161432
GPQA Diamond62.4%—
Confabulations18.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

o1-mini: —, Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision—1245

Multilingual Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English12891400
LMArena Chinese13141462
LMArena French12931442
LMArena German12781426
LMArena Japanese12451367
LMArena Korean12231352
LMArena Russian12831400
LMArena Spanish13031424

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following13041399
LiveBench Instruction Following65.4%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query13201410

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text13171417
LMArena Creative Writing12441368
LMArena Multi-Turn13141416
Short-Story Creative Writing64.9%—
LiveBench Language40.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1-mini better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1-mini or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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