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Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Qwen3.5 397B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 27 shared benchmark results across 6 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

OpenAI
73.51/100
Margin
16.5pts
← winning
57.01/100
3 category wins3 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: GPT-5.5 #9 (Estimated); Qwen3.5 397B #71 (Estimated). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. GPT-5.5 and Qwen3.5 397B share 27 comparable benchmark results. 6 of 8 categories are comparable. 30 results are unique to GPT-5.5; 28 to Qwen3.5 397B.

Updated July 22, 2026
Shared results
27
GPT-5.5 only
30
Qwen3.5 397B only
28
Comparable categories
6 / 8

Pick GPT-5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5 397B only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 27 shared benchmark results across 6 evidence categories; 6 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

GPT-5.5 is clearly ahead on the BenchAlign aggregate, 73.51 to 57.01. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-5.5's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 81.6 against 56.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 82% to 52.5%. Qwen3.5 397B does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-5.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $30.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.60 input / $3.60 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5 397B. That is roughly 8.3x on output cost alone. GPT-5.5 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen3.5 397B 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-5.5 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for GPT-5.5 and Qwen3.5 397B
CategoryGPT-5.5ΔQwen3.5 397B
MathGPT-5.547.6Margin 43.0Qwen3.5 397B90.6
AgenticGPT-5.581.6Margin 25.1Qwen3.5 397B56.5
ReasoningGPT-5.585.0Margin 21.8Qwen3.5 397B63.2
MultimodalGPT-5.570.4Margin 9.2Qwen3.5 397B79.6
CodingGPT-5.558.6Margin 7.9Qwen3.5 397B66.5
KnowledgeGPT-5.557.8Margin 1.2Qwen3.5 397B56.6
MultilingualGPT-5.5Not measuredMarginNo overlapQwen3.5 397B84.7
Inst. FollowingGPT-5.5Not measuredMarginNo overlapQwen3.5 397B92.6

Decisive benchmark drivers

The largest measured benchmark gaps in this matchup, with exact reported values.

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  1. Terminal-Bench 2.0

    Agentic
    Source ↗
    A 82%B 52.5%
    Winner: GPT-5.5Δ 29.5
    Terminal-Bench 2.0: GPT-5.5 scored 82%; Qwen3.5 397B scored 52.5%. GPT-5.5 wins this benchmark.
  2. HLE

    Knowledge
    Source ↗
    A 52.2%B 28.7%
    Winner: GPT-5.5Δ 23.5
    HLE: GPT-5.5 scored 52.2%; Qwen3.5 397B scored 28.7%. GPT-5.5 wins this benchmark.
  3. BrowseComp

    Agentic
    Source ↗
    A 84.4%B 62%
    Winner: GPT-5.5Δ 22.4
    BrowseComp: GPT-5.5 scored 84.4%; Qwen3.5 397B scored 62%. GPT-5.5 wins this benchmark.
  4. SWE-bench Pro

    Coding
    Source ↗
    A 58.6%B 50.9%
    Winner: GPT-5.5Δ 7.7
    SWE-bench Pro: GPT-5.5 scored 58.6%; Qwen3.5 397B scored 50.9%. GPT-5.5 wins this benchmark.
  5. GPQA

    Knowledge
    Source ↗
    A 93.6%B 88.4%
    Winner: GPT-5.5Δ 5.2
    GPQA: GPT-5.5 scored 93.6%; Qwen3.5 397B scored 88.4%. GPT-5.5 wins this benchmark.

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensGPT-5.5$5 input / $30 outputQwen3.5 397B$0.6 input / $3.6 outputQwen3.5 397B has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondGPT-5.5Not availableQwen3.5 397B96 tok/sA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenGPT-5.5Not availableQwen3.5 397B2.44 sA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensGPT-5.51MQwen3.5 397B128KGPT-5.5 lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

AgenticGPT-5.5 wins
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 82%52.5%GPT-5.5 leads
CyberGymSource 81.8%Not comparable
BrowseCompSource 84.4%62%GPT-5.5 leads
OSWorld-VerifiedSource 78.7%Not comparable
MCP AtlasSource 75.3%46.1%GPT-5.5 leads
ToolathlonSource 55.6%36.3%GPT-5.5 leads
τ²-bench resultsSource 93.9%95.6%Qwen3.5 397B leads
AA Agentic IndexSource 44.9%19.9%GPT-5.5 leads
APEX-Agents-AASource 37.7%15.3%GPT-5.5 leads
GDPval-AASource 49.5%23.1%GPT-5.5 leads
GDPval-AASource 1490962GPT-5.5 leads
Gert LabsSource 72.93%46.76%GPT-5.5 leads
ResearchClawBenchSource 17.0%14.2%GPT-5.5 leads
OSWorld 2.0Source 13.0%Not comparable
JobBenchSource 42.7%Not comparable
ExploitGymSource 13.4%Not comparable
AA BriefcaseSource 1154Not comparable
AA AutomationBenchSource 42.1%Not comparable
AA EnterpriseOps-GymSource 46.6%Not comparable
AA Harvey LABSource 86.3%Not comparable
AA ITBenchSource 45.8%Not comparable
AA Tau3 BankingSource 31.3%Not comparable
terminalBenchHardSource 60.6%Not comparable
aaTerminalBench21Source 84.3%Not comparable
Claw-EvalSource 56.8%Not comparable
QwenClawBenchSource 51.8%Not comparable
τ³-bench resultsSource 68.4%Not comparable
VITA-BenchSource 43.7%Not comparable
DeepPlanningSource 37.6%Not comparable
MCP-TasksSource 74.2%Not comparable
WideResearchSource 74.0%Not comparable
CodingQwen3.5 397B wins
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
SWE-bench ProSource 58.6%50.9%GPT-5.5 leads
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 82.0%Not comparable
Vibe Code BenchSource 69.85%Not comparable
React Native EvalsSource 84.7%Not comparable
cursorBench31Source 59.2%Not comparable
cursorBench32Source 58.4%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 74.9%48.2%GPT-5.5 leads
AA-SciCodeSource 56.1%42.0%GPT-5.5 leads
FrontierCode 1.1 MainSource 43.0%Not comparable
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 76.2%Not comparable
LiveCodeBench v6Source 83.6%Not comparable
ReasoningGPT-5.5 wins
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
MRCR v2 64K-128KSource 83.1%Not comparable
MRCR v2 128K-256KSource 87.5%Not comparable
ARC-AGI-2Source 85%Not comparable
AA-LCRSource 74.3%65.7%GPT-5.5 leads
CritPtSource 27.1%1.7%GPT-5.5 leads
LongBench v2Source 63.2%Not comparable
AI-NeedleSource 68.7%Not comparable
KnowledgeGPT-5.5 wins
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
GPQASource 93.6%88.4%GPT-5.5 leads
GPQA-DSource 93.6%Not comparable
HLESource 52.2%28.7%GPT-5.5 leads
HLE w/o toolsSource 41.4%Not comparable
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 54.8%33.7%GPT-5.5 leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 93.5%89.3%GPT-5.5 leads
AA-HLESource 44.3%27.3%GPT-5.5 leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource 20.1%-29.8%GPT-5.5 leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 56.9%31.4%GPT-5.5 leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 85.5%89.1%GPT-5.5 leads
SuperGPQASource 70.4%Not comparable
MMLU-ProSource 87.8%Not comparable
MMLU-ReduxSource 94.9%Not comparable
C-EvalSource 93%Not comparable
MathQwen3.5 397B wins
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
FrontierMath (legacy)Source 51.7%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 51.700%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Source 35.400%Not comparable
AIME26Source 93.3%Not comparable
HMMT Feb 2025Source 94.8%Not comparable
HMMT Nov 2025Source 92.7%Not comparable
HMMT Feb 2026Source 87.9%Not comparable
MMAnswerBenchSource 80.9%Not comparable
Multilingual
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
MMLU-ProXSource 84.7%Not comparable
NOVA-63Source 59.1%Not comparable
MultimodalQwen3.5 397B wins
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
MMMU-ProSource 81.2%79%GPT-5.5 leads
MMMU-Pro w/ PythonSource 83.2%Not comparable
OfficeQA ProSource 54.1%Not comparable
AA-MMMU-ProSource 79.9%77.3%GPT-5.5 leads
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1282Not comparable
MathVisionSource 88.6%Not comparable
CharXivSource 80.8%Not comparable
VideoMMMUSource 84.7%Not comparable
ScreenSpot ProSource 65.6%Not comparable
V*Source 95.8%Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Qwen3.5 397BResult
AA-IFBenchSource 75.9%78.8%Qwen3.5 397B leads
IFEvalSource 92.6%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (7)

Which is better, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.5 397B?

GPT-5.5 is ahead on BenchLM's BenchAlign leaderboard, 73.51 to 57.01. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 82% and 52.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.5 397B?

GPT-5.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.8 versus 56.6. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Index is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.5 versus 58.6. Inside this category, AA Coding Index is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.6 versus 47.6. GPT-5.5 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for reasoning, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.5 397B?

GPT-5.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 63.2. Inside this category, CritPt is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.5 397B?

GPT-5.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 56.5. Inside this category, GDPval-AA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 70.4. Inside this category, AA-MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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