# GPT-5.1 vs Qwen1.5-110B

> GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-1-vs-qwen1-5-110b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.1 leads 64.5 to 38.0.
- Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 49.0 | 34.2 |
| Rank | 53 | 234 |
| Context | 400K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | 1184 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1395 | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| GSO | 13.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 35% |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 44.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,192 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)
- Qwen1.5-110B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 47.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1199 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,473 | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1457 | 1168 |
| ForecastBench | 58.1 | 57.7 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 17.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 72.8% | — |
| CritPt | 4.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 32% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 11.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 95.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| DTBench | 90.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 72.1% | — |
| LMCA | 43.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.64 | — |
| LiveBench | 78.8% | — |

## Math

- GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1447 | 1185 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 94.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 31% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 12.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1470 | 1144 |
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 23.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 57.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)
- Qwen1.5-110B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1250 | — |
| VPCT | 58.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1403 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | 1206 |
| LMArena French | 1450 | 1151 |
| LMArena German | 1438 | 1123 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1453 | 1074 |
| LMArena Korean | 1401 | 1044 |
| LMArena Russian | 1435 | 1118 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1142 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1443 | 1158 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 93.3% | — |
| IFEval | 93.5% | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1447 | 1157 |
| CL-bench | 23.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | 1175 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1427 | 1148 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1450 | 1160 |
| WildBench | 86.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 80.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.1 better than Qwen1.5-110B?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-5.1 or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Qwen1.5-110B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.