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-Coder-32B-Instruct is a 32-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Alibaba, released in November 2024 and trained on a large corpus spanning 92 programming languages including C, Python, Java, Rust, and domain-specific languages. The model was designed to provide competitive code generation, repair, and reasoning capabilities as an open-weight alternative for developers building code assistant tools and automated review pipelines. Its 128K context window enables whole-file and multi-file code comprehension, making it particularly suited for complex repository-level tasks.
8 months newer
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-11-12

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
GPT-5 Mini
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
GPT-5 Mini
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct