# MiniCPM5-1B vs Qwen3.7 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniCPM5-1B and Qwen3.7 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minicpm5-1b-vs-qwen3-7-plus
- Last updated: September 21, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 8
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniCPM5-1B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.7 Plus leads overall 61.8 to 38.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 10.4 for MiniCPM5-1B and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HMMT Feb 2026 in Mathematics, with scores of 25.8% and 92.9%.
- Qwen3.7 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenBMB | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 61.8 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 52 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 43.8 (Estimated · #99/154)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 37.6 (Supported · #128/154)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 25.1% | 72.9% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 70.3% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 61.8% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 73.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 45.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 62.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.0% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 2.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 53.4 (Estimated · #46/156)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 22.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 33.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 70.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 77.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 57.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 41.1% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 51.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 74 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 71.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 9.1% | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 72.4 (#18/49)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.9% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMSearch-Plus | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 86.9% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 37 (Estimated · #151/186)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #48/186)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 48.9% | 88.5% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| MMLU-Redux | 70.1% | 94.5% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| GPQA-D | 26.3% | 90.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| SuperGPQA | 23.1% | 71.4% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 34.7% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 89.0% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 78.9 (#3/12)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 83.0% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.8% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.7 Plus
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 10.4 (#122/124)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 89.2 (#18/124)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 46.7% | 79.1% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| IFEval | 80.4% | 94.6% | Qwen3.7 Plus |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 5.4 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 78.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 40.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 40.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 25.8% | 92.9% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| MATH-500 | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 22.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniCPM5-1B or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MiniCPM5-1B and Qwen3.7 Plus?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 10.4 for MiniCPM5-1B and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does MiniCPM5-1B cover on BenchLM?

MiniCPM5-1B currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.7 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Plus currently has 52 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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