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GPT-4o vs Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

OpenAI · released

Wins 1 of 3 areas

Reasoning

Alibaba · released

Wins 0 of 3 areas

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GPT-4o wins more areas, narrowly.

Scores updated · 14 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the three areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Agents and reasoning rest on a single test each.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

GPT-4o$5.00 to read · $15.00 to write$20Price from Artificial Analysis
Qwen2.5 VL 32B InstructNo current price is tracked.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where GPT-4o pulls ahead

  • Harder college exam questions with imagesMMMU-Pro+6.8points aheadGPT-4o56.3Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct49.5
  • Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+6.6points aheadGPT-4o52.6Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct46
  • College exam questions with charts, maps and diagramsMMMU+2.2points aheadGPT-4o72.2Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct70

Where Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct pulls ahead

  • Math problems shown in pictures and chartsMathVista+13.3points aheadQwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct74.7GPT-4o61.4
  • Questions that truly need the image to answerMMStar+5.6points aheadQwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct69.5GPT-4o63.9

Every test, side by side

All 14 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

AgentsEven

Full agents ranking

ReasoningGPT-4o

Full reasoning ranking

Images and chartsEven
  • MathVistaQwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct by 13.361.474.7+13.3
  • MMMU-ProGPT-4o by 6.856.349.5+6.8
  • MMStarQwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct by 5.663.969.5+5.6
  • MMMUGPT-4o by 2.272.270+2.2

Full images and charts ranking

Other results8 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, GPT-4o or Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct?

GPT-4o wins one of the three areas where both have results: reasoning. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct wins none. They are level on agents and images and charts.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 14 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 6 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 8 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.