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Key Takeaways

The readout for GPT-5 and Qwen3.5, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Decision read

GPT-5

GPT-5 currently has the stronger profile, with verified wins split 4 to 2.

Evidence depth

132 data points

Includes 33 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 9 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with GPT-5

The charts below split 42 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

Change comparison

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Model compare

GPT-5 vs Qwen3.5

gpt-5-vs-qwen3-5

Model A

OpenAI

GPT-5

Model B

Qwen

Qwen3.5

Overall leaderLeadingContender
Verified metric wins4 wins2 wins
Where it leadsCheapest input price, Average speed, First-token latency, Provider coverageFree providers, Recent tests
Model metadataGPT-5 exposes 128K tokens; notable signals: Text input, Image input, File input, Text output.Qwen3.5 exposes 262.1K tokens; notable signals: Text input, Image input, Text output, Tool calling.
DeveloperOpenAINo data
Context window128K tokens262.1K tokens
Max output16.4K tokens262.1K tokens
ReleasedAug 2025Mar 2026
Modalities

Input

FileImageText

Output

Text

Input

TextImagevideo

Output

Text
Features
Text inputImage inputFile inputText outputStructured outputsJSON mode
Text inputImage inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning
ParametersNo data9B
TokenizerGPTQwen3
Knowledge cutoff2024-09-30No data
OpenRouter IDopenai/gpt-5-chatqwen/qwen3.5-9b
ReferencesNo dataNo data

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
7 / 8
Model B coverage
8 / 8
Shared
7 shared categories
GPT-5Qwen3.5
Category performanceCompare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.AgentsCodingReasoningKnowledgeMathMultilingualMultimodalInstruction following

Avg. score

GPT-5

61.4

Avg. score

Qwen3.5

67.7

Selected category

Math

Qwen3.5 leads by 28.5

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Aggregateverified

BenchLM overall score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

75.0

Rank #19/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+13.0

Qwen3.5

62.0

Rank #34/82 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Performanceverified

Time to first answer token

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

winner

1.03 s

Rank #21/78 · confidence 4

+63.40 s

Qwen3.5

64.43 s

Rank #70/78 · confidence 4

Performanceverified

Time to first token

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

winner

1.03 s

Rank #31/78 · confidence 4

+0.61 s

Qwen3.5

1.64 s

Rank #48/78 · confidence 4

Performanceverified

Output speed

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

winner

68.1 tok/s

Rank #46/78 · confidence 4

+17.4 tok/s

Qwen3.5

50.7 tok/s

Rank #58/78 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Input price

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

$1.25/M

Rank #61/95 · confidence 4

+$0.650/M

Qwen3.5

winner

$0.600/M

Rank #45/95 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

$3.44/M

Rank #65/95 · confidence 4

+$2.09/M

Qwen3.5

winner

$1.35/M

Rank #51/95 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

$10.00/M

Rank #67/95 · confidence 4

+$6.40/M

Qwen3.5

winner

$3.60/M

Rank #53/95 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

AA-LCR

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

75.6

Rank #2/57 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+17.6

Qwen3.5

58.0

Rank #37/57 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Reasoningverified

MMLU-Pro

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

80.6%

Rank #39/74 · confidence 4

+7.2%

Qwen3.5

winner

87.8%

Rank #5/74 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Reasoningverified

BenchLM Reasoning score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

76.3

Rank #14/57 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+17.9

Qwen3.5

58.4

Rank #30/57 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Reasoningverified

CritPt

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

5.7

Rank #14/44 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+4.8

Qwen3.5

0.9

Rank #36/44 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Reasoningverified

GPQA

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

67.3%

Rank #72/103 · confidence 4

+22.0%

Qwen3.5

winner

89.3%

Rank #14/103 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

5.4%

Rank #72/103 · confidence 4

+21.9%

Qwen3.5

winner

27.3%

Rank #22/103 · confidence 4

Codingverified

Terminal-Bench Hard

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

32.6

Rank #32/59 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+3.0

Qwen3.5

winner

35.6

Rank #26/59 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Codingverified

AA-SciCode

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

42.9

Rank #27/63 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+1.8

Qwen3.5

41.1

Rank #32/63 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Codingverified

AA Coding Index

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

36.0

Rank #34/61 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+1.4

Qwen3.5

winner

37.4

Rank #28/61 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Codingverified

BenchLM Coding score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

68.9

Rank #33/69 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+2.5

Qwen3.5

66.4

Rank #35/69 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Codingverified

SciCode

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

38.8%

Rank #52/101 · confidence 4

+3.2%

Qwen3.5

winner

42.0%

Rank #37/101 · confidence 4

Mathverified

BenchLM Math score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

70.1

Rank #25/51 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+3.2

Qwen3.5

winner

73.3

Rank #21/51 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Knowledgeverified

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

40.7

Rank #12/58 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+16.4

Qwen3.5

24.3

Rank #40/58 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Knowledgeverified

BenchLM Knowledge score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

79.2

Rank #18/67 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+8.1

Qwen3.5

71.1

Rank #25/67 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Knowledgeverified

AA-HLE

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

26.5

Rank #20/63 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+7.7

Qwen3.5

18.8

Rank #31/63 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Knowledgeverified

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

82.1

Rank #20/58 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+2.3

Qwen3.5

79.8

Rank #25/58 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Knowledgeverified

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

85.4

Rank #25/63 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+0.7

Qwen3.5

winner

86.1

Rank #21/63 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Knowledgeverified

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

36.1

Rank #25/66 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+4.1

Qwen3.5

32.0

Rank #34/66 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Multilingualverified

BenchLM Multilingual score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

79.2

Rank #13/50 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+7.4

Qwen3.5

71.8

Rank #16/50 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Multimodalverified

BenchLM Multimodal Grounded score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

93.3

Rank #5/60 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+28.2

Qwen3.5

65.1

Rank #28/60 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Multimodalverified

AA-MMMU-Pro

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

74.2

Rank #14/34 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+21.5

Qwen3.5

52.7

Rank #32/34 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Instruction followingverified

BenchLM Instruction Following score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

80.7

Rank #21/56 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+4.1

Qwen3.5

winner

84.8

Rank #15/56 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Instruction followingverified

AA-IFBench

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

73.1

Rank #16/60 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+21.5

Qwen3.5

51.6

Rank #34/60 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Agentsverified

BenchLM Agentic score

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

74.6

Rank #14/69 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+20.6

Qwen3.5

54.0

Rank #35/69 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Agentsverified

Tau2-Telecom

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

84.8

Rank #22/58 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+0.9

Qwen3.5

83.9

Rank #26/58 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

Agentsverified

AA Agentic Index

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

winner

54.6

Rank #25/57 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+1.3

Qwen3.5

53.3

Rank #26/57 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-16

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
OpenAIGPT-5
QwenQwen3.5
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
OpenAIGPT-5
QwenQwen3.5
V-API20 tests
OpenAI

GPT-5

speed / latency

95 tok/s / 1234ms

input / output

No data

Qwen

Qwen3.5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

星见雅 API10 tests
OpenAI

GPT-5

speed / latency

38 tok/s / 15844ms

input / output

No data

Qwen

Qwen3.5

speed / latency

21 tok/s / 4352ms

input / output

No data

N1N5 tests
OpenAI

GPT-5

speed / latency

102 tok/s / 948ms

input / output

No data

Qwen

Qwen3.5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

SkyAI5 tests
OpenAI

GPT-5

speed / latency

169 tok/s / 1894ms

input / output

No data

Qwen

Qwen3.5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

42公益站0 tests
OpenAI

GPT-5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Qwen

Qwen3.5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

DNSHE
OpenAI

GPT-5

gpt-5-openai-compact

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$75.00/M / $600.00/M

Qwen

Qwen3.5

qwen3.5-397b-a17b

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M / $0/M

Koyeb AI Gateway
OpenAI

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0006/M / $0.0050/M

Qwen

Qwen3.5

qwen3.5-4b

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.037/M / $0.037/M

SWT-API
OpenAI

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0006/M / $0.0050/M

Qwen

Qwen3.5

qwen3.5-4b

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.037/M / $0.037/M

Yun API
OpenAI

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0027/M / $0.0027/M

Qwen

Qwen3.5

qwen3.5-397b-a17b

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.274/M / $1.64/M

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5 and Qwen3.5: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Guidance
OpenAIGPT-5
QwenQwen3.5
When to choose each model

GPT-5

GPT-5 is stronger when you prioritize Cheapest input price, Average speed, First-token latency, Provider coverage.

Qwen3.5

Qwen3.5 is stronger when you prioritize Free providers, Recent tests.

FAQ

TL;DR: GPT-5 leads across 132 verifiable data points, including pricing, speed, latency, benchmarks, and provider examples.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 6 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

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Data as of Jul 3, 2026, 02:14 PM·Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.