# o1 vs QwQ-32B

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 32

## Summary

- They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where o1 leads 45.7 to 34.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 61.7% for o1 and 20.9% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.6 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 140 | 153 |
| Context | 200K | — |
| Input $/M | $15 | — |
| Output $/M | $60 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1: 45.7 (#64)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 61.7% | 20.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 69.7% | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1333 |
| WeirdML | 47.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| CadEval | 56% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 80.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1: 24.3 (#111)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 51.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1: 27.5 (#103)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 15% | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 91.6% | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1326 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.92 | 137.6 |
| LiveBench | 75.7% | 72% |
| SimpleBench | 41.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 30.7% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.7% | — |
| DTBench | 74.7% | — |
| LMCA | 22.3% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |

## Math

- o1: 34.9 (#150)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.3% | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 80.3% | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1388 | 1359 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 14.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 94.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 9.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1: 41.5 (#101)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.8% | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | 11.7% | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1362 | 1323 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41.1% | — |

## Multimodal

- o1: 33.6 (#87)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1168 | — |
| GeoBench | 80% | — |
| VPCT | 37% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 41.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- o1: 48.8 (#137)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1359 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1394 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1343 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1337 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1346 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1356 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1345 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- o1: 75.0 (#82)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1368 | 1297 |

## Long Context

- o1: 50.3 (#9)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1378 | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- o1: 55.8 (#139)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | o1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1366 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1347 | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 70.2% | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1368 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 65.4% | 51.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |

## FAQ

### Is o1 better than QwQ-32B?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1 and QwQ-32B share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.