Model comparison
Qwen Plus vs Qwen3-1.7B
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen Plus scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 27.6 to 18.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 48.1% for Qwen Plus and 38% for Qwen3-1.7B.
- Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.7 | 26.2 |
| Released | 2024-01-25 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 33K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 20 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1328 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen Plus: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.4% |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1317 | — |
| DTBench | 81.1% | — |
| LMCA | 24% | — |
Math Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 17.8% | 8.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1326 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 65.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 48.1% | 38% |
| LMArena Expert | 1328 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1310 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1251 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1323 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1303 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1325 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1326 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1336 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen Plus better than Qwen3-1.7B?
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Qwen Plus and Qwen3-1.7B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Plus has 20 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.