Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-4.1 family designed for efficient, cost-effective deployments requiring long-context understanding. It features a 1M token context window and native image understanding, with maintained coding and instruction-following capabilities relative to its size. GPT-4.1 mini targets applications needing a balance between response speed, cost, and capability, such as production APIs with high request volumes.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct is the flagship of Alibaba's Qwen2.5 series, a 72-billion-parameter open-weight model released in September 2024 after training on 18 trillion tokens spanning code, mathematics, and multilingual text. It offers strong generalist performance across coding, instruction-following, and structured reasoning while remaining fully open-weight under Apache 2.0 — a combination that made it a widely referenced model in open-source evaluations and community benchmarking. The 128K context window and built-in structured output support made it a common choice for document analysis and multi-step agentic pipeline development.
6 months newer
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-09-19

GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPT-4.1 mini
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPT-4.1 mini
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct