Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-5.3 Instant is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 87 to 42. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.3 Instant's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 78.7 against 22.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 76 to 16.
Pick GPT-5.3 Instant if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
GPT-5.3 Instant
82.9
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
45.9
GPT-5.3 Instant
78.7
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
22.8
GPT-5.3 Instant
95
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
42.1
GPT-5.3 Instant
94.2
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
49
GPT-5.3 Instant
80.8
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
34.1
GPT-5.3 Instant
96
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
68
GPT-5.3 Instant
93.4
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
58.8
GPT-5.3 Instant
97.2
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
48.5
GPT-5.3 Instant is ahead overall, 87 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 76 and 16.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 34.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 78.7 versus 22.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.2 versus 48.5. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.2 versus 49. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 45.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 42.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 96 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 58.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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