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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

GPT-4.1 Mini leads Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 10.2 to 9.6, and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs 1.5x less per output token ($1.10 vs $1.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 41 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
2
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.10
39
vs boards won of 41 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B 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 262K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BQwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
41
GPT-4.1 Mini only
45
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct only
0
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, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct not benchmarked.
Widest category
Math, 26.7 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
AA Math Index: GPT-4.1 Mini 46.3 against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct 84.3, 38.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct $1.10 per million output tokens, 1.5x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct 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 Next 80B A3B InstructTies
Coding04
Intelligence10
Agentic work10
Reasoning06
Math04
Knowledge05
General020
All shared boards239
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B 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%78.4%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%9.8%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
WeirdML37.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding13671440Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: software and IT13601447Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructLeader
AA Intelligence Index10.29.6GPT-4.1 Mini
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 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%41.5%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 index06
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B 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%75.9%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%12.6%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
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 prompts13491428Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: expert13381417Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13621431Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Vision: diagrams1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1214Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%66.7%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B 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 Index46.384.3Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%84.3%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
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: math13431440Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: mathematical work13471434Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
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 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B 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%82.4%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13281434Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13241455Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: legal and government13431431Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: business and finance13221422Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Neither model has a result on the other 6 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 Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B 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 index020
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructLeader
IFBench38.3%60.7%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%63.7%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
DTBench68.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMCA21.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%55.6%Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text13411417Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: instruction following13331388Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: creative writing12991333Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13561421Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: non-English13181407Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: Chinese13291460Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: German13501416Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: Japanese12901395Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: Korean12981363Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: French13581414Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: Spanish13191435Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: Russian13241404Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: Polish13261398Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: multi-turn13541416Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: longer queries13441402Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: writing and language13191355Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13001349Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
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 Next 80B A3B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B 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
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct$0.0006Fits in one request

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct$0.0083Fits in one request

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct$0.031Fits in one request

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B 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 Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 14, 2025September 11, 2025
Context window1.05M262K
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.10
Output $/Mtok$1.60$1.10
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 Qwen3 Next 80B A3B 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 262K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs $0.10 and $1.10. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

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

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct comparison based on?

41 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 Next 80B A3B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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