// COMPARISON

GPT-5 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of GPT-5 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B across 57 evaluations. GPT-5 leads on the most benchmarks (42).

The models

Leads 42
Multimodal Proprietary
Params
Context
Released
Aug 2025

"We are introducing GPT‑5, our best AI system yet. GPT‑5 is a significant leap in intelligence over all our previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performa.

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Language Open (Restricted)
Params
235B
Context
Released
Apr 2025

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, ac.

Full Qwen3-235B-A22B specs →

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark GPT-5 Qwen3-235B-A22B
agentic
BrowseComp 54.9%
BrowseComp-Zh 63
MCP-Mark 50.9
MCP-Universe 47.9
Terminal-Bench 2.0 35.2%
Tool-Decathlon 29
τ²-Bench (TAU2) 80.2
code
Codeforces Elo 2,537 2,056
FullStackBench 50.92%
LiveCodeBench 84.5%
LiveCodeBench v5 82.68% 70.7%
LiveCodeBench v6 80.6%
MBPP 91.72%
SWE-bench Verified 74.9%
coding
Aider Benchmark 95.49
MultiPL-E 76.66
SWE-Bench Multilingual 55.3
general
AlignBench v1.1 8.94
ArenaHard 96.1%
ArenaHard v2 82.91
C-Eval 88.27% 89.6%
Creative Writing v3 84.6
IFEval 95.38% 83.4%
LiveBench 77.1
MMLU-Pro 87.5%
MMLU-Redux 92.75% 92.7%
MMMLU 84.3%
Multi-IF 71.9
MultiChallenge 69.6%
WritingBench 8.03
knowledge
AGIEval 88.56
CMMLU 87.09
INCLUDE 78.7
TriviaQA 86.32
math
AIME 2024 94.78% 86.68%
AIME 2025 94.6% 81.5%
CNMO 2024 87.93%
HMMT February 2025 93.3% 61.88%
HMMT November 2025 89.2
IMOAnswerBench 76
MATH-500 98%
MT-AIME 2024 80.8
Omni-MATH 82.9
Omni-MATH-HARD 73.61% 56.91%
PolyMath-en 54.7
UGMathBench 80.18
reasoning
ARC-AGI-1 65.7
AutoLogi 89
BBEH 72.78
FinanceReasoning 89.33
GPQA Diamond 86.05% 71.1%
Humanity's Last Exam 35.2% 14.23%
MLogiQA 77.1
ZebraLogic 98% 80.3%
safety
HealthBench 67.2%
science
PhyBench 48.53
tool-use
BFCL v3 57.21% 70.8%

Best result per row highlighted in cyan. Each benchmark links to its definition and sources; each model links to its full scorecard.

Frequently asked questions

Which model is best, GPT-5 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B?

Across the 57 benchmarks compared here, GPT-5 leads on the most (42). The right choice still depends on your task — check the per-benchmark table above for coding, reasoning and math.

Which of these models is best for coding?

GPT-5 has the strongest result on Codeforces Elo among the models compared here. See the code-category rows in the table for the full picture.

How many benchmarks are compared?

This comparison covers 57 benchmarks on which at least one of the selected models has a published score.

Where do the benchmark scores come from?

Scores are aggregated from official model cards, technical reports and standard public evaluations, and link back to each benchmark's source. They are updated as new results are published.

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