Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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OpenAI
o4-mini was created as part of the next generation of OpenAI's reasoning models, designed to continue advancing the balance between analytical capability and operational efficiency. Built to bring cutting-edge reasoning techniques to applications requiring quick turnaround, it represents the evolution of compact reasoning-focused models.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
7 months newer

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

o4-mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Context window and performance specifications
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
o4-mini
2024-05-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

o4-mini
OpenAI

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

o4-mini

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

o4-mini

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct