# o1 vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

> Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-vs-qwen3-5-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 66.0 to 55.6.

## Snapshot

| | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | 45.3 |
| Rank | 143 | 71 |
| Context | 200K | — |
| Input $/M | $15 | — |
| Output $/M | $60 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- o1: 46.1 (#70)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1487 |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 47.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 69.7% | — |
| CadEval | 56% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 80.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1: 24.6 (#117)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 51.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1: 27.9 (#111)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1371 | 1483 |
| SimpleBench | 41.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 30.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 15% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 91.6% | — |
| DTBench | 74.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| LMCA | 22.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.91 | — |
| LiveBench | 75.7% | — |

## Math

- o1: 36.1 (#175)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1388 | 1474 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 14.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 80.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 94.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 9.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1: 41.5 (#110)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1361 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 11.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- o1: 34.2 (#93)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1168 | — |
| GeoBench | 80% | — |
| VPCT | 37% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 41.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- o1: 48.6 (#142)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1394 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1344 | 1484 |
| LMArena German | 1337 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1346 | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1356 | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1345 | 1470 |

## Instruction Following

- o1: 74.8 (#86)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1367 | 1467 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- o1: 50.3 (#9)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1378 | 1476 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- o1: 55.6 (#144)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1366 | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1348 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1369 | 1478 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 70.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 65.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1 better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1 or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1 and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.