GPT-4.1 vs Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

GPT-4.1 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 43 versus 41. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

GPT-4.1's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 78.3 against 36.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 90.2 to 43. Qwen2.5-VL-32B does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4.1 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for Qwen2.5-VL-32B.

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-4.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-VL-32B only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.

Knowledge

GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1

78.3

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

36.3

90.2
MMLU
43
66.3
GPQA
42
-
SuperGPQA
40
-
OpenBookQA
38
-
MMLU-Pro
53
-
HLE
2

Coding

GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1

54.6

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

21

54.6
SWE-bench Verified
17
-
HumanEval
35
-
LiveCodeBench
11

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

GPT-4.1

26.4

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

44.1

26.4
AIME 2024
45
-
AIME 2023
43
-
AIME 2025
44
-
HMMT Feb 2023
39
-
HMMT Feb 2024
41
-
HMMT Feb 2025
40
-
BRUMO 2025
42
-
MATH-500
59

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-VL-32B
-
SimpleQA
41
-
MuSR
39
-
BBH
61

Instruction Following

GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1

87.4

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

67

87.4
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Qwen2.5-VL-32B
-
MGSM
63

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GPT-4.1 or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

GPT-4.1 is ahead overall, 43 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 90.2 and 43.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-4.1 or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

GPT-4.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.3 versus 36.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-4.1 or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

GPT-4.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.6 versus 21. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GPT-4.1 or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 44.1 versus 26.4. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GPT-4.1 or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

GPT-4.1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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