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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B leads GPT-4.1 Mini on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 11.9 to 10.2, at about the same output price ($1.50 vs $1.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 47 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
6
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.50
41
vs boards won of 47 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B: 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 262K tokens) and work measured by SWE-bench Verified or LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BQwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwenNot benchmarked1 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
47
GPT-4.1 Mini only
39
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B only
6
Like-for-like categories
8 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, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B not benchmarked.
Widest category
Coding, 14.0 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
SWE-bench Verified: GPT-4.1 Mini 23.9% against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 69.6%, 45.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $1.50 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 262K.

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 MiniBarsQwen3 Coder 480B A35BTies
Coding06
Intelligence01
Agentic work10
Reasoning24
Math22
Knowledge05
Web design05
General118
All shared boards641
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
Aider polyglot32.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified23.9%69.6%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena WebDevNot measured1275Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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%58.5%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%18.9%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Terminal-BenchNot measured27.2%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
GSO-BenchNot measured4.9%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
WeirdML37.6%41.2%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
ALE-BenchNot measured461.4Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
LMArena Text: coding13671412Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: software and IT13601393Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1257Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1287Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
AA Intelligence Index10.211.9Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Epoch Capabilities Index134.9Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%43.6%GPT-4.1 Mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)50.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
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%61.8%GPT-4.1 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%4.5%GPT-4.1 Mini
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)65.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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
LMArena Text: hard prompts13491372Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: expert13381338Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13621380Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Vision: diagrams1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1214Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%49.5%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
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 Index46.339.3GPT-4.1 Mini
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%39.3%GPT-4.1 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME44.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 36.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH level 587.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math13431365Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: mathematical work13471367Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
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%78.8%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13281347Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13241347Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: legal and government13431358Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: business and finance13221343Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Web design benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
Design Arena: websites9971158Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: UI components9581110Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: game dev10701098Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: data viz10341084Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: 3D836Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: all code categories9931142Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index118
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
IFBench38.3%40.5%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%45.7%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
DTBench68.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMCA21.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text13411357Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: instruction following13331355Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: creative writing12991333Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13561359Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: non-English13181346Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Chinese13291357Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: German13501325GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese12901311Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Korean12981305Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: French13581398Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Spanish13191360Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Russian13241366Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Polish13261344Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: multi-turn13541366Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: longer queries13441378Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: writing and language13191340Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13001317Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
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 16 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 Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
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
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.0010Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.019Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.075Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35B
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 14, 2025July 23, 2025
Context window1.05M262K
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.30
Output $/Mtok$1.60$1.50
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it01
Cost per solved task$1.818Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-4.1 Mini better than Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 262K tokens) and work measured by SWE-bench Verified or LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs $0.30 and $1.50. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

GPT-4.1 Mini, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B comparison based on?

47 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 Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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