Model comparison

o4-mini vs Wizardlm 70b

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

33.0

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. o4-mini scores higher in 7 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o4-mini leads 54.0 to 34.8.
  • Wizardlm 70b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o4-mini and Wizardlm 70b specifications
o4-miniWizardlm 70b
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index41.633.0
Released2025-04-16—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.10—
Output $ / M tokens$4.40—
Results tracked6012

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 40.9 (#127), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding13681081
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)45%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO3.6%—
WeirdML52.6%—
CadEval62%—
ALE-Bench826.17—
AlgoTune1.72—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o4-mini: 32.6 (#61), Wizardlm 70b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard53.2%—
GDPval25.3%—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 24.6 (#162), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts13511079
ARC-AGI-26.1%—
SimpleBench38.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
ARC-AGI-158.7%—
CritPt0.6%—
Chess Puzzles26%—
EnigmaEval9.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles5%—
DTBench77.6%—
LMCA26.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.64—
ForecastBench61.8—

Math o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 40.8 (#89), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Math13891116
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)36.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.7%—
Omni-MATH72%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)24.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

o4-mini: 43.6 (#91), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
GPQA Diamond79.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam18.1%—
SimpleQA Verified19.6%—
MMLU-Pro82%—
Confabulations15.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate18.6%—
GPQA (HELM)73.5%—
LMArena Expert1343—

Multimodal Not comparable

o4-mini: 40.2 (#49), Wizardlm 70b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Vision1194—
GeoBench64%—
VPCT57.5%—

Multilingual o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 47.0 (#154), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English13371078
LMArena Chinese13541052
LMArena German13361083
LMArena Russian13341155
LMArena French1364—
LMArena Japanese1308—
LMArena Korean1312—
LMArena Spanish1347—

Instruction Following o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 75.2 (#68), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following13211093
IFEval92.8%—

Long Context o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 45.5 (#33), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query13151097
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 54.0 (#152), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Text13531120
LMArena Creative Writing12941149
LMArena Multi-Turn13501108
Short-Story Creative Writing75%—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o4-mini better than Wizardlm 70b?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is o4-mini or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o4-mini and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. o4-mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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