Model comparison

o3-pro vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

o3-pro and Qwen3 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.7 vs 43.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

o3-pro OpenAI

42.7

Rank #94 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #83 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. o3-pro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.1 to 46.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 59.3% for o3-pro and 11% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
  • o3-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o3-pro and Qwen3 235B-A22B specifications
o3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.743.2
Released2025-06-102025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K131K
Max output100K16K
Input $ / M tokens$20$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$80$2.80
Results tracked1249

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

o3-pro: 55.1 (#22), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 43.8 (#72)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
Aider Polyglot84.9%59.6%
WeirdML58.2%41%
SciCode—42.4%
LMArena Coding—1445

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o3-pro: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.7 (#48)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning o3-pro leads

o3-pro: 24.1 (#152), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.8 (#302)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
ARC-AGI-24.9%1.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.1%69.4%
ARC-AGI-159.3%11%
DTBench86.9%80.3%
LMCA38.5%29.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index147.43143.87
SimpleBench—31%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1433
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
ForecastBench—59.7

Math Not comparable

o3-pro: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 48.5 (#51)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH—71.8%
LMArena Math—1431
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

o3-pro: 29.0 (#234), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.5 (#67)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
Confabulations14.2%15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate23.3%9.3%
GPQA Diamond—80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
LMArena Expert—1460

Multilingual Not comparable

o3-pro: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.5 (#84)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English—1410
LMArena Chinese—1481
LMArena French—1445
LMArena German—1432
LMArena Japanese—1400
LMArena Korean—1391
LMArena Russian—1411
LMArena Spanish—1429

Instruction Following Not comparable

o3-pro: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.8 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
IFEval—83.5%
LMArena Instruction Following—1408

Long Context o3-pro leads

o3-pro: 72.1 (#1), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#25)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%75%
LMArena Longer Query—1426

Writing & Preference Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

o3-pro: 57.1 (#128), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.8 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proQwen3 235B-A22B
Short-Story Creative Writing84.4%83%
LMArena Text—1419
LMArena Creative Writing—1384
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1432

Frequently asked questions

Is o3-pro better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

o3-pro and Qwen3 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.7 vs 43.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, o3-pro or Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.

Is o3-pro or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.1 versus 43.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

o3-pro does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do o3-pro and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3-pro has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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