# GPT-3.5-turbo vs Qwen Plus

> Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-3-5-turbo-vs-qwen-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-3.5-turbo scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen Plus in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen Plus leads 52.2 to 25.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 15.9% for GPT-3.5-turbo and 65.3% for Qwen Plus.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for GPT-3.5-turbo.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 16K.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 23.2 | 37.1 |
| Rank | 350 | 210 |
| Context | 16K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $0.50 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $1.50 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331)
- Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1136 | 1328 |
| WeirdML | 3.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 70.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.7% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-3.5-turbo: —
- Qwen Plus: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 21.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332)
- Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1108 | 1317 |
| DTBench | 48.5% | 81.1% |
| LMCA | 9.7% | 24% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 3% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 61.6% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 57% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 50.4 | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.6% | — |

## Math

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327)
- Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.2% | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1142 | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | 15.9% | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
| GSM8K | 57.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303)
- Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28% | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1070 | 1328 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.4% | — |
| BoolQ | 87% | — |
| MMLU | 71.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 86% | — |
| TriviaQA | 85.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258)
- Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1108 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1075 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1043 | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | 1123 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1118 | — |
| LMArena German | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1019 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1121 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262)
- Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1119 | 1303 |

## Long Context

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254)
- Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1121 | 1324 |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305)
- Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1125 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1092 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1117 | 1336 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 451 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-3.5-turbo better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GPT-3.5-turbo or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; GPT-3.5-turbo lists at $0.50 and $1.50.

### Is GPT-3.5-turbo or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 16K.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-3.5-turbo and Qwen Plus share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-3.5-turbo has 44 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.