Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.1, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-4 family optimized for coding, precise instruction following, and long-context tasks. It features a 1M token context window and native image understanding, with improved performance on tool-calling and web development benchmarks compared to GPT-4o. GPT-4.1 targets software development workflows, long-document analysis, and applications requiring accurate, instruction-adherent outputs.
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
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4.1
OpenAI
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPT-4.1
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPT-4.1
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct