Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 offers 762.4K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B. Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B is $9.00 cheaper per million tokens. 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
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.
5 months newer

GPT-4.1
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4.1
OpenAI
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
GPT-4.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
GPT-4.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
OpenRouter