# o1-mini vs Qwen2.5-Max

> Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen2-5-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 27

## Summary

- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 25.6 to 8.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 72.3% for o1-mini and 51.4% for Qwen2.5-Max.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 40.7 |
| Rank | 235 | 146 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | 64.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1359 |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
- Qwen2.5-Max: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | 51.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1360 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | 67.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 132.53 |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | 62.3% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |

## Math

- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 62% | 58.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1369 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Confabulations | 18.6% | 21.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1337 |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1382 |
| LMArena French | 1293 | 1396 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1300 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | 1377 |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | 75.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1335 |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1358 |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1367 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1339 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | 72.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1364 |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | 56.3% |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen2.5-Max share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.