# GPT-4o vs Qwen3 Max

> Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4o-vs-qwen3-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 27

## Summary

- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 Max leads 38.7 to 10.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.4% for GPT-4o and 73.3% for Qwen3 Max.
- Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
- Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.6 | 43.7 |
| Rank | 324 | 87 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | $1.20 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)
- Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1297 | 1456 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 31% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 45.3% | — |
| GSO | 0% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 51.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.1% | — |
| CadEval | 26% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 370.45 |
| HumanEval+ | 87.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)
- Qwen3 Max: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GDPval | 9.9% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 8.6% | — |
| Cybench | 12.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1006 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 40.8% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 71.56 |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)
- Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 13% | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1448 |
| DTBench | 64.5% | 82.1% |
| LMCA | 16.6% | 28.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.97 | 142.38 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 17.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 72.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 30.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 55.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 55.3% | — |

## Math

- GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)
- Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.4% | 18.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.4% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1285 | 1446 |
| MATH Level 5 | 53.3% | 97.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 29.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 49.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)
- Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.2% | 72.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 26% | 48.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1250 | 1455 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 2.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 71.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52% | — |
| MMLU | 88.1% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)
- Qwen3 Max: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1137 | — |
| Video-MME | 71.9% | — |
| GeoBench | 71% | — |
| VPCT | 40% | — |
| ScienceQA | 88.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)
- Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1429 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1478 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | 1449 |
| LMArena German | 1282 | 1463 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1257 | 1397 |
| LMArena Korean | 1234 | 1399 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1292 | 1462 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)
- Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1278 | 1419 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 68.6% | — |
| IFEval | 81.7% | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)
- Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | 1438 |
| CL-bench | — | 14.5% |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)
- Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1300 | 1439 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1402 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1302 | 1446 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.8% | — |
| WildBench | 82.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 47.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4o better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is GPT-4o or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Qwen3 Max share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.