Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o3 mini offers 29.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B. Qwen3-235B-A22B is $4.50 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
OpenAI o3 mini, released by OpenAI in January 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o3 family designed for efficient, cost-effective STEM problem-solving. It features a 200K token context window and adjustable chain-of-thought effort settings, allowing developers to trade reasoning depth for speed. o3 mini targets science, mathematics, and coding applications where lower inference cost and faster response times are a priority.
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.
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o3 mini
OpenAI
2025-01-31
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
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