Model comparison

o1 vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #95 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 43.4.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B specifications
o1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.943.2
Released2024-09-122025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K131K
Max output100K33K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$60$2.80
Results tracked5218

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

o1: 46.1 (#70), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 42.4 (#100)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding13671439
Aider Polyglot61.7%—
WeirdML47.6%—
LiveBench Coding69.7%—
CadEval56%—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+80.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o1: 24.6 (#117), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons51.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

o1: 27.9 (#111), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 29.3 (#92)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts13711428
SimpleBench41.7%—
ARC-AGI-130.7%—
Chess Puzzles15%—
EnigmaEval5.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning91.6%—
DTBench74.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA22.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.91—
LiveBench75.7%—

Math Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

o1: 36.1 (#175), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.0 (#118)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math13881426
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)14.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—
LiveBench Math80.3%—
MATH Level 594.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)9.3%—

Knowledge o1 leads

o1: 41.5 (#110), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 40.3 (#121)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert13611442
GPQA Diamond76.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified41.1%—
Confabulations11.7%—

Multimodal Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

o1: 34.2 (#93), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.8 (#55)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision11681247
GeoBench80%—
VPCT37%—
SpatialViz-Bench41.4%—

Multilingual Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

o1: 48.6 (#142), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 51.9 (#97)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English13581405
LMArena Chinese13941463
LMArena French13441452
LMArena German13371424
LMArena Japanese13461385
LMArena Korean13961394
LMArena Russian13561408
LMArena Spanish13451428

Instruction Following Too close to call

o1: 74.8 (#86), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.2 (#101)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following13671406
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—

Long Context o1 leads

o1: 50.3 (#9), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#98)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query13781420
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

o1: 55.6 (#144), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.2 (#99)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text13661420
LMArena Creative Writing13481366
LMArena Multi-Turn13691428
Short-Story Creative Writing70.2%—
LiveBench Language65.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1 better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, o1 or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is o1 or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

o1 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do o1 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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