Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.1 Thinking supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is an extended reasoning variant from the GPT-5.1 family that applies chain-of-thought processing to improve accuracy on complex reasoning, mathematics, and coding tasks. It targets analytical workflows where deliberate reasoning over a problem significantly improves output quality.
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 Thinking
OpenAI
2025-11
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Qwen3-235B-A22B
OpenRouter
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Qwen3-235B-A22B
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Qwen3-235B-A22B