# GPT-4 Turbo vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-turbo-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 38.0 to 9.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.7% for GPT-4 Turbo and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 292 | 159 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $10 | — |
| Output $/M | $30 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | 44.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | 54.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| WeirdML | 18% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4 Turbo: —
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | 58.3 |
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | 1359 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1324 |
| MMLU | 81.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1276 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1259 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4 Turbo better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-4 Turbo or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and QwQ-32B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.