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OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·OpenAI vs Alibaba

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini — OpenAI
Quality
#35 of 65
66based on 6 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#61 of 356
113.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#220 of 504
$0.69
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.25 · Out $2.00
Cache hit price
#103 of 384
$0.025
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#244 of 550
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#6 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#132 of 356
78.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#356 of 504
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#328 of 384
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#187 of 550
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini scores 66 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 26-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 3 published evaluations, with OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 3.

Blended pricing is $0.69 per 1M tokens for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini and $2.21 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is about 3.2× cheaper.

Throughput is 113 tokens per second for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini and 78 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 5.0s and 1.0s. OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini accepts 400k tokens of context against 1.00M.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 4 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 8 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 66 based on 6 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.69 $2.21
Output tok/s 113 78
Context window 400k 1.00M
Providers 2 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 66 93
Coding Index 51 —
Mathematics Index 93 —
Reasoning Index 54 —
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond75 / 91
Mock AIME 2024–2587 / 96
SWE-bench Verified65 / 77

Right-hand figures read OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini leads on 0 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 3.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Neither model currently appears in an arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $0.25 $1.48
Output $/1M $2.00 $4.42
Blended $/1M $0.69 $2.21
Cache read $/1M $0.025 $0.295
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 400k 1.00M
Max output tokens 128k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 113 78
Time to first token 5.0s 1.0s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

4 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Mini tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
OpenAI · first party $0.34 151 — —
Azure · first party $0.69 144 — —
Alibaba · first party — — $2.21 88
AtlasCloud — — $3.75 33

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0) Full attribution →