Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4o Mini was created as a smaller, more efficient variant of GPT-4o, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications requiring faster response times and lower costs. Built to democratize access to advanced vision and text understanding, it enables developers to build sophisticated applications with reduced resource requirements.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-VL 7B was developed as an efficient vision-language model, designed to provide multimodal understanding with minimal computational requirements. Built with 7 billion parameters for integrated visual and textual processing, it serves applications requiring practical vision-language capabilities with constrained resources.
6 months newer

GPT-4o mini
OpenAI
2024-07-18

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

GPT-4o mini

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
GPT-4o mini
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4o mini
Azure

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

GPT-4o mini

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

GPT-4o mini

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct