Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 leads with 2.7% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 represents an iterative improvement in the GPT-4 series, developed to refine the foundational capabilities established by GPT-4. Built to incorporate learnings and optimizations from the deployment of previous versions, it continues the evolution of OpenAI's flagship model line with enhanced reliability and performance.
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
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

GPT-4.1

QvQ-72B-Preview
GPT-4.1
2024-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.1
OpenAI

QvQ-72B-Preview

GPT-4.1

QvQ-72B-Preview

GPT-4.1

QvQ-72B-Preview