Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 mini offers 762.4K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Coder-480B. Both models have similar pricing. 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
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on July 22, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active parameters per inference, specifically designed for agentic coding tasks. It features a 256K token native context window (extendable to 1M tokens with extrapolation) and demonstrated competitive performance on agentic coding, browser automation, and tool-use benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder-480B targets automated software engineering, multi-step code agents, and open-source coding deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4.1 mini
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
Qwen3-Coder-480B
GPT-4.1 mini
Qwen3-Coder-480B
GPT-4.1 mini
Qwen3-Coder-480B
OpenRouter