GPT-5.1 vs Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max leads GPT-5.1 on coding, 54.1 to 40.4 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.7 Max costs 2.3x less per output token ($4.425 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 38 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5.1 or Qwen3.7 Max: which to pick
Pick Qwen3.7 Max for coding: it scores 54.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 40.4 for GPT-5.1.
Pick GPT-5.1 for a lower cost per solved task ($1.02 against $4.69) and work measured by SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) or Chess puzzles, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 38
- GPT-5.1 only
- 63
- Qwen3.7 Max only
- 21
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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, six public coding benchmarks
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max scores 54.1 against 40.4.
3 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max leads, 29.5 against 24.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Qwen3.7 Max has a AA Agentic Index result, 22.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max leads, 90.2% against 86.6%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5.1 has a AIME result, 93.3%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max leads, 89.3% against 86.4%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max leads, 1274 against 1187.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max takes 1M tokens against 400K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.7 Max
GPT-5.1 $0.0063, Qwen3.7 Max $0.0037 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1 $1.02, Qwen3.7 Max $4.69.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5.1 40.4 from 3 benchmarks, Qwen3.7 Max 54.1 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 14.5 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena WebDev: React: GPT-5.1 1307 against Qwen3.7 Max 1514, 34.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5.1 $10.00 against Qwen3.7 Max $4.425 per million output tokens, 2.3x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5.1 takes 400K tokens, Qwen3.7 Max 1M.
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-5.1 | Bars | Qwen3.7 Max | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 7 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 6 | ||
| Math | 0 | 1 | ||
| Knowledge | 3 | 3 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 8 | ||
| General | 2 | 3 | ||
| All shared boards | 7 | 31 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index17
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 66.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1396 | 1515 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| AA Coding Index | 49.4 | 66.0 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 86.5% | 87.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 69.8% | 68.8% | GPT-5.1 |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 24.6% | 47.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 13.1% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 86.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 49.5% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 45.5% | 50.8% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Terminal-Bench | 47.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 13.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| WeirdML | 60.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1189.4 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1453 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1454 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1307 | 1514 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1405 | 1512 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1421 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 24.7 | 29.5 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.8 | 154.0 | Qwen3.7 Max |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 22.5 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1208 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1191 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1155 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1159 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1187 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1161 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1108 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1171 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.8% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 15.8% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.5% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 81.9% | 94.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $1,473 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 86.6% | 90.2% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 83.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.3% | 92.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 28.5% | 40.5% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 87.6% | 90.9% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| ARC-AGI | 72.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 17.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | 70.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Chess puzzles | 42.0% | 26.0% | GPT-5.1 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 19.0% | 32.0% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| EBR-bench | Not measured | 9.5% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| VPCT | 58.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1457 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1470 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1462 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1264 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1272 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 93.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 93.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| AA Math Index | 94.0 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 94.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 88.6% | 95.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 64.6% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 34.1% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 26.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1446 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1449 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index33
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 86.4% | 89.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 85.7% | 84.9% | GPT-5.1 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 73.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 63.8% | 63.7% | GPT-5.1 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.9% | 75.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 61.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 96.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 52.7% | 38.8% | GPT-5.1 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48.0% | 55.8% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| LMArena Text: science | 1459 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1456 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1459 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1431 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 45.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1187 | 1274 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1163 | 1267 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1178 | 1264 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1204 | 1275 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1060 | 1265 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1170 | 1275 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1149 | 1216 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1119 | 1211 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 43.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 88.1% | 79.4% | GPT-5.1 |
| IFBench | 72.9% | 80.5% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 80.0% | 79.0% | GPT-5.1 |
| DTBench | 90.1% | 92.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| LMCA | 43.9% | 44.0% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| CL-bench | 23.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| CL-bench Life | 17.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1443 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1443 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1427 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1250 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1451 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1431 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1495 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1438 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1453 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1401 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1450 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1433 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1435 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1440 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1450 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1448 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1428 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1415 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1252 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1270 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1255 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1263 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1252 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1232 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1266 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1403 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max | 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
Qwen3.7 Max costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.7 Max costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.7 Max 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-5.1 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | November 13, 2025 | May 21, 2026 |
| Context window | 400K | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $1.475 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $4.425 |
| Coding index | 40.4 | 54.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.02 | $4.69 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5.1 better than Qwen3.7 Max for coding?
Pick Qwen3.7 Max for coding: it scores 54.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 40.4 for GPT-5.1. Pick GPT-5.1 for a lower cost per solved task ($1.02 against $4.69) and work measured by SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) or Chess puzzles, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1 or Qwen3.7 Max?
GPT-5.1 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Max costs $1.475 and $4.425. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, GPT-5.1 costs $1.02 and Qwen3.7 Max $4.69.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5.1 or Qwen3.7 Max?
Qwen3.7 Max, with 1M tokens against 400K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5.1 vs Qwen3.7 Max comparison based on?
38 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-5.1's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.7 Max's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.