Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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 Coder Next is a coding-specialized open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen3 family, built on the Qwen3-Next architecture with hybrid attention and Mixture-of-Experts design optimized for local development and agentic coding workflows. It targets on-device and self-hosted deployments requiring a capable coding agent that can operate within consumer hardware constraints.
9 months newer

o4 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Qwen3 Coder Next
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-02-04
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
o4 mini
OpenAI
Qwen3 Coder Next
o4 mini
Qwen3 Coder Next
o4 mini
Qwen3 Coder Next