GPT-4o vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Updated October 21, 2026. 8 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick GPT-4o for coding: it scores 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 22.9 for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.
Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B when output tokens cost 4.8x less, or when the context window is larger, 262K against 128K tokens.
- Shared results
- 8
- GPT-4o only
- 18
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only
- 43
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
GPT-4o
GPT-4o scores 38.8 against 22.9.
One benchmark behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has a AA Intelligence Index result, 17.7.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-4o has a Design Arena: websites result, 831.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B takes 262K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
GPT-4o $0.0075, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B $0.0013 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4o 38.8 from 1 benchmark, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 22.9 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 68.4 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- τ²-Bench Telecom: GPT-4o 25.1% against Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 93.6%, 68.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4o $10.00 against Qwen3.5-122B-A10B $2.08 per million output tokens, 4.8x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4o takes 128K tokens, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 262K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-4o | Bars | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 4 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 8 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 38.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| SWE-bench Lite | 38.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| SWE-bench (full test set) | 18.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | 30.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1361 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 43.3 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 30.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 39.7% | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 8.3% | 31.1% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1436 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1436 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1353 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1351 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 17.7 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 25.1% | 93.6% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| GDPval | 9.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 54.3% | 85.7% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 2.4% | 25.2% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| ARC-AGI | 4.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 17.0% | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1421 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1249 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1261 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 6.0 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 74.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| MMLU | 88.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1432 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1423 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1422 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1414 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 831 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 885 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 906 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 858 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 869 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 861 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 34.3% | 75.7% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 49.3% | 76.3% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| DTBench | 64.5% | 84.3% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| LMCA | 16.6% | 32.2% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1417 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1399 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1368 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1244 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1428 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1401 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1463 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1425 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1367 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1353 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1443 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1425 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1400 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1398 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1416 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1410 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1387 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1366 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1249 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1301 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1251 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1243 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1220 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-4o | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | May 13, 2024 | February 25, 2026 |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.50 | $0.26 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $2.08 |
| Coding index | 38.8 | 22.9 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-4o better than Qwen3.5-122B-A10B for coding?
Pick GPT-4o for coding: it scores 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 22.9 for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B when output tokens cost 4.8x less, or when the context window is larger, 262K against 128K tokens.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?
GPT-4o costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.26 and $2.08. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4o or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4o vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B comparison based on?
8 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-4o's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.