GPT-4vsQwen3-Max
GPT-4 | Qwen3-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | 8k | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Function synthesis HumanEval164 small Python problems: the AI is given a function's description and has to write the working function. This was the coding benchmark of the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 era, before the field moved to fixing real bugs in real repositories. Higher is better. | 67% | — |
General knowledge MMLUA 57-subject multiple-choice exam — history, law, medicine, maths — that was the standard measure of how much a model knows from 2020 until roughly 2024, when frontier scores crowded into the high 80s and labs moved on to harder tests. The scores here were published years apart under different testing setups, so read them as a historical record rather than a like-for-like ranking. Higher is better. | 86.4% | — |
Grade-school math GSM8KGrade-school maths word problems that take a few steps of arithmetic to work through. It separated the models of 2022 and 2023 sharply, then saturated. One caveat on the historical numbers: OpenAI included part of the GSM8K training set in GPT-4's pre-training mix, so GPT-4's score is not a clean few-shot result. Higher is better. | 92% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Release date | Mar 14 2023 | Sep 24 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Which is better: GPT-4 or Qwen3-Max?
GPT-4 and Qwen3-Max don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. GPT-4 shipped 925 days before Qwen3-Max, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 8k (GPT-4) vs 256k (Qwen3-Max).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — GPT-4 and Qwen3-Max don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
GPT-4 was released by OpenAI on Mar 14 2023.
Qwen3-Max was released by Qwen on Sep 24 2025.
GPT-4 has a 8k context window; Qwen3-Max has 256k.