Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-5 family that inherits GPT-5's unified reasoning architecture and multimodal capabilities at a reduced inference cost. It targets high-volume production use cases requiring a balance of intelligence and response speed, offering GPT-5 capabilities for applications where full GPT-5 inference costs are a concern.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion-parameter open-weight language model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released in September 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5 series trained on 18 trillion tokens with improved code, math, and multilingual coverage. The model delivers significantly stronger instruction-following, structured output generation, and long-context handling compared to its predecessor, supporting 128K context windows in a compact form factor. It became widely adopted as a foundation for fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, and on-device deployment due to its balance of capability and efficiency.
10 months newer
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-09-19

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPT-5 Mini
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPT-5 Mini
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct