Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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-VL Flash is a lightweight multimodal variant from Alibaba's Qwen3-VL family, designed for efficient visual reasoning and image understanding at lower inference cost. It inherits the joint visual-textual architecture of the Qwen3-VL series and targets latency-sensitive applications requiring multimodal input processing at scale.
2 months newer

GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
2025-11
Qwen3-VL Flash
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-01-22
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Qwen3-VL Flash
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Qwen3-VL Flash