Model comparison

o4-mini vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. o4-mini scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.7 Plus in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.7 Plus leads 39.3 to 24.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Mystery Game Puzzles: 5% for o4-mini and 17% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
  • Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
  • Qwen3.7 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

o4-mini and Qwen3.7 Plus specifications
o4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.645.3
Released2025-04-162026-06-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K1M
Max output100K131K
Input $ / M tokens$1.10$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$4.40$1.60
Results tracked6032

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 40.9 (#127), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Coding13681473
FrontierCode—10.2%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)45%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
SciCode—45.5%
GSO3.6%—
WeirdML52.6%—
CadEval62%—
ALE-Bench826.17—
AlgoTune1.72—

Agentic & Tool Use o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 32.6 (#61), Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard53.2%—
OSWorld 2.0—2.8%
GDPval25.3%—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Plus leads

o4-mini: 24.6 (#162), Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
CritPt0.6%9.1%
Chess Puzzles26%24%
LMArena Hard Prompts13511460
Mystery Game Puzzles5%17%
DTBench77.6%84%
LMCA26.5%37.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.64147.37
ARC-AGI-26.1%—
SimpleBench38.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)—74.8%
ARC-AGI-158.7%—
EnigmaEval9.2%—
ForecastBench61.8—

Math Qwen3.7 Plus leads

o4-mini: 40.8 (#89), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)36.1%34.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.7%93.3%
LMArena Math13891466
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
Omni-MATH72%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)24.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads

o4-mini: 43.6 (#91), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
GPQA Diamond79.6%87.9%
LMArena Expert13431467
Humanity's Last Exam18.1%—
SimpleQA Verified19.6%—
MMLU-Pro82%—
Confabulations15.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate18.6%—
GPQA (HELM)73.5%—

Multimodal Qwen3.7 Plus leads

o4-mini: 40.2 (#49), Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision11941279
GeoBench64%—
VPCT57.5%—
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Plus leads

o4-mini: 47.0 (#154), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Non-English13371445
LMArena Chinese13541510
LMArena French13641473
LMArena German13361471
LMArena Japanese13081413
LMArena Korean13121415
LMArena Russian13341457
LMArena Spanish13471457

Instruction Following Too close to call

o4-mini: 75.2 (#68), Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13211440
IFEval92.8%—

Long Context o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 45.5 (#33), Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Longer Query13151455
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Plus leads

o4-mini: 54.0 (#152), Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text13531455
LMArena Creative Writing12941439
LMArena Multi-Turn13501460
Short-Story Creative Writing75%—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o4-mini better than Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, o4-mini or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

Is o4-mini or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do o4-mini and Qwen3.7 Plus share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. o4-mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.

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