Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o3-mini leads with 33.7% higher average benchmark score. o3-mini offers 160.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is $4.90 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, o3-mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
o3-mini was created as an efficient variant of the o3 reasoning model, designed to provide advanced thinking capabilities with reduced computational requirements. Built to make next-generation reasoning accessible to a broader range of applications, it balances analytical depth with practical speed and cost considerations.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 7B was created as an efficient instruction-tuned model, designed to provide capable performance with just 7 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring reliable language understanding with minimal computational overhead, it serves as an accessible entry point to the Qwen 2.5 family.
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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

o3-mini
OpenAI
2025-01-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

o3-mini

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
o3-mini
2023-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

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Azure
OpenAI


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