Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4 mini offers 29.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B. Qwen3-235B-A22B is $4.50 cheaper per million tokens. o4 mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
OpenAI o4 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o4 family that combines multimodal understanding with efficient chain-of-thought processing. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with strong performance on mathematics and coding benchmarks relative to its inference cost. o4 mini targets cost-sensitive applications requiring both visual reasoning and mathematical accuracy.
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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o4 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
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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