# o1-mini vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

> Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 25.5 to 8.8.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 235 | 190 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 36.3% | 41.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1412 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1372 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| 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)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1365 |
| 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)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1338 |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1357 |
| LMArena French | 1293 | 1398 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | 1360 |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1355 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1378 |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1365 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.5 vs 35.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.