Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Mini offers 162.4K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is $23.00 cheaper per million tokens. 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
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-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-5 Mini
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
Qwen3-Max
GPT-5 Mini
Qwen3-Max
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Qwen3-Max
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