# o4-mini vs Qwen Plus

> o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Plus costs 3.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o4-mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o4-mini-vs-qwen-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. o4-mini scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen Plus in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o4-mini leads 40.8 to 23.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 81.7% for o4-mini and 17.8% for Qwen Plus.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 41.6 | 37.1 |
| Rank | 132 | 210 |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $1.10 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $4.40 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)
- Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1328 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 45% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| GSO | 3.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 52.6% | — |
| CadEval | 62% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 826.17 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.72 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)
- Qwen Plus: —

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 53.2% | — |
| GDPval | 25.3% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)
- Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 67.6% | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1351 | 1317 |
| DTBench | 77.6% | 81.1% |
| LMCA | 26.5% | 24% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 6.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 38.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 58.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 26% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 9.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.64 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |

## Math

- o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)
- Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 81.7% | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1389 | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | 97.8% | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 24.8% | 1.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 36.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 72% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 6.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)
- Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.6% | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1343 | 1328 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 18.1% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 19.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 82% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 18.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 73.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)
- Qwen Plus: —

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1194 | — |
| GeoBench | 64% | — |
| VPCT | 57.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)
- Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1337 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1354 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1308 | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | 1334 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1364 | — |
| LMArena German | 1336 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1312 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | — |

## Instruction Following

- o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)
- Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1303 |
| IFEval | 92.8% | — |

## Long Context

- o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)
- Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1315 | 1324 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)
- Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1353 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1294 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1336 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 75% | — |
| WildBench | 85.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o4-mini better than Qwen Plus?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Plus costs 3.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o4-mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, o4-mini or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

### Is o4-mini or Qwen Plus better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do o4-mini and Qwen Plus share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. o4-mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.