Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o3 mini offers 29.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is $3.50 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-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.
7 months newer

o3 mini
OpenAI
2025-01-31
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
o3 mini
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
o3 mini
OpenAI
Qwen3-Max
o3 mini
Qwen3-Max
o3 mini
Qwen3-Max
OpenRouter