Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-VL Flash supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
OpenAI o1 mini, released by OpenAI in September 2024, is a lightweight reasoning model from the o1 family optimized for efficient STEM problem-solving at lower cost and latency. It features a 128K token context window and applies chain-of-thought reasoning specifically tuned for mathematics, science, and coding tasks. o1 mini targets use cases where rapid, cost-efficient reasoning is preferred over the broader capabilities of the full o1 model.
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.
1 year newer

o1 mini
OpenAI
2024-09-12
Qwen3-VL Flash
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-01-22
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
o1 mini
OpenAI
Qwen3-VL Flash
o1 mini
Qwen3-VL Flash
o1 mini
Qwen3-VL Flash