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-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.
3 months newer
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22

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-Coder-480B
OpenRouter
GPT-5.1 Codex Max
Qwen3-Coder-480B
GPT-5.1 Codex Max
Qwen3-Coder-480B