Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Mini offers 162.4K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B. Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B is $24.00 cheaper per million tokens. 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-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.
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GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
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