Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4o supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4o, released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal large language model from the GPT-4 family that natively processes text, image, and audio inputs in a single end-to-end model. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated competitive performance across coding, reasoning, and vision benchmarks at its release. GPT-4o targets general-purpose assistant applications, vision-enabled workflows, and use cases requiring low-latency multimodal understanding.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3 Coder Next is a coding-specialized open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen3 family, built on the Qwen3-Next architecture with hybrid attention and Mixture-of-Experts design optimized for local development and agentic coding workflows. It targets on-device and self-hosted deployments requiring a capable coding agent that can operate within consumer hardware constraints.
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GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-05-13
Qwen3 Coder Next
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-02-04
Context window and performance specifications
GPT-4o
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4o
OpenAI
Qwen3 Coder Next
GPT-4o
Qwen3 Coder Next
GPT-4o
Qwen3 Coder Next