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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

GPT-4.1 Mini leads Qwen2.5 72B Instruct on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 10.2 to 7.7, and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs 4.0x less per output token ($0.40 vs $1.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 44 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
44
Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
26.5
Output $/M
$0.40
0
vs boards won of 44 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for a larger context window (1.05M against 33K tokens).

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BQwen2.5 72B InstructQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
44
GPT-4.1 Mini only
42
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct only
9
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
GPT-4.1 Mini not benchmarked, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct not benchmarked.
Widest category
Math, 24.1 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
OTIS Mock AIME: GPT-4.1 Mini 44.7% against Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 8.1%, 36.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against Qwen2.5 72B Instruct $0.40 per million output tokens, 4.0x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 33K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGPT-4.1 MiniBarsQwen2.5 72B InstructTies
Coding50
Intelligence20
Agentic work10
Reasoning60
Math60
Knowledge50
General190
All shared boards440
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index50
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
Aider polyglot32.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified23.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Coding Index20.2Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)58.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)48.3%27.6%GPT-4.1 Mini
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%4.5%GPT-4.1 Mini
WeirdML37.6%16.0%GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: coding13671292GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: software and IT13601292GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
AA Intelligence Index10.27.7GPT-4.1 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index134.9129.0GPT-4.1 Mini
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%34.5%GPT-4.1 Mini
METR time horizonsNot measured35.8%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
BALROGNot measured16.2%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
TheAgentCompanyNot measured5.7%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)50.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 36 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
GPQA Diamond67.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)70.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)66.4%49.1%GPT-4.1 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%3.6%GPT-4.1 Mini
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)65.8%49.1%GPT-4.1 Mini
ARC-AGI3.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-20.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Chess puzzles1.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles7.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
BIG-Bench HardNot measured79.8%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13491271GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: expert13381245GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13621279GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision: diagrams1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1214Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
AIME49.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)88.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MGSM (Vals AI)87.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Math Index46.314.0GPT-4.1 Mini
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%14.0%GPT-4.1 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME44.7%8.1%GPT-4.1 Mini
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 36.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH level 587.3%63.2%GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: math13431283GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: mathematical work13471290GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
MMLU Pro77.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)78.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)57.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)65.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MedQA (Vals AI)84.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)78.1%72.0%GPT-4.1 Mini
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMLUNot measured85.3%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
AI2 Reasoning ChallengeNot measured94.5%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
LMArena Text: science13281275GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13241258GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: legal and government13431288GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: business and finance13221253GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
Design Arena: websites997Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: UI components958Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: game dev1070Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: data viz1034Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: 3D836Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: all code categories993Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index190
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
IFBench38.3%36.9%GPT-4.1 Mini
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
DTBench68.8%62.9%GPT-4.1 Mini
LMCA21.1%13.4%GPT-4.1 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
HellaSwagNot measured84.8%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
WinoGrandeNot measured82.3%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
PIQANot measured82.6%Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured
LMArena Text13411269GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: instruction following13331254GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: creative writing12991221GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13561283GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: non-English13181252GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Chinese13291273GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: German13501234GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese12901180GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Korean12981188GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: French13581280GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Spanish13191255GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Russian13241264GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Polish1326Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn13541272GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries13441281GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: writing and language13191247GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13001211GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision: English1191Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1186Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1188Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humor1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1174Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1187Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B InstructLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.0012Fits in one request
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct$0.0006Fits in one request

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct$0.019Exceeds the context window

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct$0.076Exceeds the context window

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 14, 2025September 19, 2024
Context window1.05M33K
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.36
Output $/Mtok$1.60$0.40
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it00
Cost per solved task$1.818Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-4.1 Mini better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for a larger context window (1.05M against 33K tokens).

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs $0.36 and $0.40. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

GPT-4.1 Mini, with 1.05M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct comparison based on?

44 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4.1 Mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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