Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Codex Max, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is an enhanced coding variant from the GPT-5.1 Codex line, designed for more complex software engineering tasks requiring additional reasoning depth. It targets large-scale code generation, automated refactoring, and sophisticated agentic development workflows.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on April 28, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window, hybrid thinking capabilities (both reasoning and direct generation modes), and was trained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages. Qwen3-235B targets complex reasoning, multilingual tasks, and open-source deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
6 months newer
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28

GPT-5.1 Codex Max
OpenAI
2025-11
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1 Codex Max
Qwen3-235B-A22B
OpenRouter
GPT-5.1 Codex Max
Qwen3-235B-A22B
GPT-5.1 Codex Max
Qwen3-235B-A22B