Model comparison

o1 vs Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.7 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

o1 OpenAI

40.6

Rank #140 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B Alibaba (Qwen)

45.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads 53.3 to 41.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 14.7% for o1 and 31.2% for Qwen3.5 397B-A17B.
  • Qwen3.5 397B-A17B is cheaper at $0.60 / $3.60 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • Qwen3.5 397B-A17B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Qwen3.5 397B-A17B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1 and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B specifications
o1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.645.7
Released2024-09-122026-02-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K262K
Max output100K66K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$60$3.60
Results tracked5236

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

o1: 45.7 (#64), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 41.7 (#108)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Coding13671464
Aider Polyglot61.7%—
LMArena WebDev—1400
WeirdML47.6%—
LiveBench Coding69.7%—
CadEval56%—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+80.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

o1: 24.3 (#111), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 33.2 (#51)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
APEX-Agents—24.9%
τ²-bench Airline—81.5%
τ²-bench Banking—9.8%
τ²-bench Retail—84.4%
τ²-bench Telecom—97.8%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons51.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

o1: 27.5 (#103), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 33.6 (#62)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
Chess Puzzles15%13%
LMArena Hard Prompts13721448
DTBench74.7%87.5%
LMCA22.3%37.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index141.92146.64
SimpleBench41.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.7%
NYT Connections (extended)—58.9%
ARC-AGI-130.7%—
EnigmaEval5.7%—
Thematic Generalization—65.1%
LiveBench Reasoning91.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LiveBench75.7%—

Math Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

o1: 34.9 (#150), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 44.9 (#64)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)14.7%31.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%88.9%
LMArena Math13881455
LiveBench Math80.3%—
MATH Level 594.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)9.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

o1: 41.5 (#101), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 53.3 (#53)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
GPQA Diamond76.8%86.4%
LMArena Expert13621461
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified41.1%—
Confabulations11.7%—

Multimodal Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

o1: 33.6 (#87), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 40.0 (#42)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Vision11681262
GeoBench80%—
VPCT37%—
SpatialViz-Bench41.4%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

o1: 48.8 (#137), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 54.0 (#56)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Non-English13591431
LMArena Chinese13941501
LMArena French13431461
LMArena German13371447
LMArena Japanese13461427
LMArena Korean13961382
LMArena Russian13561429
LMArena Spanish13451443

Instruction Following Too close to call

o1: 75.0 (#82), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 75.2 (#73)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Instruction Following13681424
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—

Long Context o1 leads

o1: 50.3 (#9), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 44.1 (#71)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Longer Query13781442
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

o1: 55.8 (#139), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 62.5 (#74)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Text13661438
LMArena Creative Writing13471401
LMArena Multi-Turn13681447
Short-Story Creative Writing70.2%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1478
LiveBench Language65.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1 better than Qwen3.5 397B-A17B?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.7 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, o1 or Qwen3.5 397B-A17B?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $3.60 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is o1 or Qwen3.5 397B-A17B better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 41.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do o1 and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B has 36.

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