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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking leads GPT-4.1 Mini on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 11.2 to 10.2, and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs 1.3x less per output token ($1.20 vs $1.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 30 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
4
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.20
26
vs boards won of 30 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: 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 LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
30
GPT-4.1 Mini only
56
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking only
0
Like-for-like categories
6 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 Thinking not benchmarked.
Widest category
Math, 8.3 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena Text: Chinese: GPT-4.1 Mini 1329 against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 1407, 13.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking $1.20 per million output tokens, 1.3x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 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 ThinkingTies
Coding12
Intelligence01
Reasoning03
Math02
Knowledge04
General314
All shared boards426
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index12
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
Aider polyglot32.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified23.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Coding Index20.217.4GPT-4.1 Mini
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)58.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)48.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
WeirdML37.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding13671392Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: software and IT13601393Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
AA Intelligence Index10.211.2Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Epoch Capabilities Index134.9Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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 index03
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
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%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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 prompts13491371Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: expert13381376Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13621384Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
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 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
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 Index46.3Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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: math13431399Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: mathematical work13471390Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
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%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13281384Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13241392Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: legal and government13431364Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: business and finance13221360Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
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 Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
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 index314
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
IFBench38.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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 Text13411368Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: instruction following13331344Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: creative writing12991314Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13561392Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: non-English13181342Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: Chinese13291407Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: German13501356Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: Japanese12901280GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Korean12981310Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: French13581351GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Spanish13191358Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: Russian13241337Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: Polish13261345Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: multi-turn13541346GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries13441353Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: writing and language13191330Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13001312Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
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 Thinking
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingLeader
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 Thinking$0.0008Fits in one request

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking$0.011Fits in one request

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking$0.042Fits in one request

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 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 Thinking
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 14, 2025September 11, 2025
Context window1.05M262K
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.15
Output $/Mtok$1.60$1.20
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 Thinking 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 LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.

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

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs $0.15 and $1.20. 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 Thinking?

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

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

30 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 Thinking's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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