Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o3 offers 29.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Coder-480B. Qwen3-Coder-480B is $48.50 cheaper per million tokens. o3 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
OpenAI o3, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a large reasoning model that applies extended chain-of-thought processing to deliver improved performance on complex math, science, and coding tasks. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with demonstrated strong results on mathematics and software engineering benchmarks. o3 targets demanding analytical and engineering tasks where deliberate, multi-step reasoning produces significantly better outcomes than direct generation.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on July 22, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active parameters per inference, specifically designed for agentic coding tasks. It features a 256K token native context window (extendable to 1M tokens with extrapolation) and demonstrated competitive performance on agentic coding, browser automation, and tool-use benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder-480B targets automated software engineering, multi-step code agents, and open-source coding deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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o3
OpenAI
2025-04-16
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Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
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