Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
GPT-4.1 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 43 versus 40. 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 34.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 90.2 to 40. Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-4.1 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. GPT-4.1 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning).
Pick GPT-4.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
GPT-4.1
78.3
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
34.7
GPT-4.1
54.6
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
22
GPT-4.1
26.4
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
41.6
GPT-4.1
87.4
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
68
GPT-4.1 is ahead overall, 43 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 90.2 and 40.
GPT-4.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.3 versus 34.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-4.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.6 versus 22. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 41.6 versus 26.4. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-4.1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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