Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 mini offers 762.4K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B. Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B is $1.00 cheaper per million tokens. 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-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.
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GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4.1 mini
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Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
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GPT-4.1 mini
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
GPT-4.1 mini
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OpenRouter