Model comparison

o3 vs Qwen3.7 Max

Qwen3.7 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #42 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. o3 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.7 Max in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.7 Max leads 49.2 to 32.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 33.3% for o3 and 64.6% for Qwen3.7 Max.
  • o3 is cheaper at $2 / $8 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3.7 Max.
  • Qwen3.7 Max accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

o3 and Qwen3.7 Max specifications
o3Qwen3.7 Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index47.551.5
Released2025-04-162026-05-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K1M
Max output100K131K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$8$7.50
Results tracked6333

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.7 Max leads

o3: 46.8 (#64), Qwen3.7 Max: 50.4 (#45)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
SWE-bench Verified62.3%77.3%
LMArena Coding14081498
ALE-Bench933.551,189
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)58.4%—
Aider Polyglot81.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1515
SciCode—48.8%
GSO8.8%—
WeirdML52.4%—
CadEval74%—

Agentic & Tool Use o3 leads

o3: 34.5 (#44), Qwen3.7 Max: 22.1 (#135)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval30.8%—
DeepResearch Bench45.2%—
OSWorld23%—
GBAEval—0.4%
LMArena Search1144—
METR Time Horizons65.4%—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Max leads

o3: 32.0 (#78), Qwen3.7 Max: 49.2 (#38)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
SimpleBench53.1%70.4%
CritPt1.4%13.4%
Chess Puzzles38%19%
LMArena Hard Prompts14021483
Mystery Game Puzzles29%32%
DTBench84.8%92.3%
LMCA39.7%44%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.86153.68
ARC-AGI-26.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)—85.1%
ARC-AGI-160.8%—
EnigmaEval13.1%—
EBR-Bench—9.5%
ForecastBench62.5—

Math Qwen3.7 Max leads

o3: 50.2 (#58), Qwen3.7 Max: 62.4 (#32)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%64.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.4%95.6%
LMArena Math14261490
FrontierMath Tier 4—34.1%
ProofBench—26%
Omni-MATH71.4%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)18.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Max leads

o3: 54.6 (#52), Qwen3.7 Max: 61.6 (#28)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
GPQA Diamond81.8%90.9%
SimpleQA Verified49.4%55.8%
LMArena Expert14021488
Humanity's Last Exam20.3%—
MMLU-Pro85.9%—
Confabulations14.4%—
GPQA (HELM)75.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

o3: 41.4 (#36), Qwen3.7 Max: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Vision1214—
GeoBench74%—
VPCT52%—

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Max leads

o3: 51.7 (#105), Qwen3.7 Max: 56.9 (#15)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Non-English14011474
LMArena Chinese14371530
LMArena Russian14061484
LMArena French1430—
LMArena German1420—
LMArena Japanese1403—
LMArena Korean1370—
LMArena Spanish1395—

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Max leads

o3: 72.8 (#127), Qwen3.7 Max: 76.7 (#38)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Instruction Following13681460
IFEval86.9%—

Long Context o3 leads

o3: 53.3 (#6), Qwen3.7 Max: 45.4 (#40)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Longer Query13721482
Fiction.LiveBench88.9%—
CL-bench17.8%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Max leads

o3: 63.5 (#64), Qwen3.7 Max: 65.0 (#54)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Text14101476
LMArena Creative Writing13591449
LMArena Multi-Turn14051481
Short-Story Creative Writing83.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1676—
WildBench86.1%—
EQ-Bench 4—1110

Frequently asked questions

Is o3 better than Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, o3 or Qwen3.7 Max?

o3 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Max lists at $2.50 and $7.50.

Is o3 or Qwen3.7 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.7 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.4 versus 46.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Max does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do o3 and Qwen3.7 Max share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Max has 33.

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