Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Max offers 126.0K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o. Qwen3-Max is $10.50 cheaper per million tokens. 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-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
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GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-05-13
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4o
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
GPT-4o
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4o
OpenAI
Qwen3-Max
GPT-4o
Qwen3-Max
GPT-4o
Qwen3-Max
OpenRouter