Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o1 offers 29.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is $73.00 cheaper per million tokens. o1 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
OpenAI o1, released by OpenAI in December 2024, is a reasoning-focused large language model that applies extended chain-of-thought processing before generating responses. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, demonstrating strong performance on STEM benchmarks requiring multi-step reasoning. o1 targets mathematics, science, and coding tasks where careful deliberation over the problem produces more accurate outputs than direct generation.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
9 months newer

o1
OpenAI
2024-12-05
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
o1
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
o1
2023-10
Available providers and their performance metrics
o1
OpenAI
Qwen3-Max
o1
Qwen3-Max
o1
Qwen3-Max
OpenRouter