Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-VL Flash supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 Codex, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a coding-specialized large language model from the GPT-5 family engineered for software engineering, code generation, and agentic development workflows. It builds on GPT-5's architecture with optimizations targeting multi-file code editing, test generation, and automated debugging. GPT-5 Codex targets developers and agentic coding tools requiring a model tuned specifically for programming tasks.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-VL Flash is a lightweight multimodal variant from Alibaba's Qwen3-VL family, designed for efficient visual reasoning and image understanding at lower inference cost. It inherits the joint visual-textual architecture of the Qwen3-VL series and targets latency-sensitive applications requiring multimodal input processing at scale.
5 months newer

GPT-5 Codex
OpenAI
2025-08
Qwen3-VL Flash
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-01-22
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Codex
Qwen3-VL Flash
GPT-5 Codex
Qwen3-VL Flash