Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 offers 162.4K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Coder-480B. Qwen3-Coder-480B is $148.50 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-5 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is a large language model that combines direct generation and extended reasoning in a single unified system with a built-in routing mechanism. It features a 400K token context window, 128K maximum output tokens, native multimodal support (text, image, audio, video), and demonstrated strong results across coding, mathematics, visual understanding, and health benchmarks at release. GPT-5 targets complex multi-step tasks including advanced coding, mathematical problem solving, and long-context analysis.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on July 22, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active parameters per inference, specifically designed for agentic coding tasks. It features a 256K token native context window (extendable to 1M tokens with extrapolation) and demonstrated competitive performance on agentic coding, browser automation, and tool-use benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder-480B targets automated software engineering, multi-step code agents, and open-source coding deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22

GPT-5
OpenAI
2025-08-07
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-5
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
GPT-5
2025-05
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5
OpenAI
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GPT-5
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GPT-5
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OpenRouter