Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
o1
57
Qwen3.7 Max
93
Verified leaderboard positions: o1 unranked · Qwen3.7 Max #2
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Knowledge
+4.5 difference
Inst. Following
+3.2 difference
o1
Qwen3.7 Max
$15 / $60
$null / $null
98 t/s
N/A
32.29s
N/A
200K
1M
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Qwen3.7 Max is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 93 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.7 Max gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for o1.
Qwen3.7 Max is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 75.7% and 92.4%.
o1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.7 versus 71.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 92.2 versus 89. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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