Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4-mini leads with 13.4% higher average benchmark score. o4-mini offers 168.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is $3.85 cheaper per million tokens. o4-mini supports multimodal inputs. Overall, o4-mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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
Qwen3-Next 80B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3-Next 80B, designed to combine large-scale mixture-of-experts architecture with reliable instruction-following. Built to demonstrate efficient deployment of capable models, it balances advanced performance with practical computational efficiency.
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o4-mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

o4-mini

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

o4-mini

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
o4-mini
2024-05-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

o4-mini
OpenAI

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

o4-mini

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

o4-mini

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
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