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GPT-4.1 mini vs QvQ-72B-Preview
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 mini leads with 2.0% higher average benchmark score. GPT-4.1 mini is available on 2 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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OpenAI
GPT-4.1 Mini was created as a smaller, more efficient variant of GPT-4.1, designed to provide strong capabilities with reduced computational requirements. Built to serve applications where speed and cost are priorities while maintaining solid performance, it extends the GPT-4.1 capabilities to resource-conscious deployments.
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QVQ-72B Preview was introduced as an experimental visual question answering model, designed to combine vision and language understanding for complex reasoning tasks. Built to demonstrate advanced multimodal reasoning capabilities, it represents Qwen's exploration into models that can analyze and reason about visual information.
3 months newer
QvQ-72B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-12-25
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14
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Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
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GPT-4.1 mini
Average Score:72.9%(+2.0%)
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QvQ-72B-Preview
Average Score:70.8%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
GPT-4.1 mini
2024-05-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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GPT-4.1 mini
2 providers
OpenAI
Throughput: 150 tok/s
Latency: 5ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 150 tok/s
Latency: 5ms
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GPT-4.1 mini
Avg Score:72.9%(+2.0%)
Providers:2
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QvQ-72B-Preview
Avg Score:70.8%
Providers:0