# o1-mini vs Qwen1.5-72B

> o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.9 to 11.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 62.4% for o1-mini and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
- Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 235 | 285 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1165 |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | 61.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
- Qwen1.5-72B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1148 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |

## Math

- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1164 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1136 |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1293 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1141 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1160 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Qwen1.5-72B?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen1.5-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.