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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

GPT-4.1 Mini leads Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 10.2 to 7.3, and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs 2.1x less per output token ($0.75 vs $1.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 11 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
10
Qwen3 VL 8B InstructQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$0.75
1
vs boards won of 11 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 VL 8B 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 IFBench, where it leads.

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BQwen3 VL 8B InstructQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
11
GPT-4.1 Mini only
75
Qwen3 VL 8B 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 VL 8B Instruct not benchmarked.
Widest category
Agentic work, 23.7 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
τ²-Bench Telecom: GPT-4.1 Mini 52.9% against Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct 29.2%, 23.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct $0.75 per million output tokens, 2.1x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 VL 8B 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 VL 8B InstructTies
Coding20
Intelligence10
Agentic work10
Reasoning20
Math20
Knowledge10
General11
All shared boards101
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B 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%35.3%GPT-4.1 Mini
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%3.8%GPT-4.1 Mini
WeirdML37.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding1367Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: software and IT1360Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B InstructLeader
AA Intelligence Index10.27.3GPT-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 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B InstructLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%29.2%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 index20
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B 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%57.9%GPT-4.1 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%3.8%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 prompts1349Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: expert1338Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English1362Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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 index20
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B 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 Index46.330.7GPT-4.1 Mini
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%30.7%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: math1343Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: mathematical work1347Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B 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%74.9%GPT-4.1 Mini
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science1328Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare1324Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: legal and government1343Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: business and finance1322Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B 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 index11
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B InstructLeader
IFBench38.3%39.9%Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%33.3%GPT-4.1 Mini
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 Text1341Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: instruction following1333Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: creative writing1299Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English1356Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: non-English1318Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: Chinese1329Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: German1350Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: Japanese1290Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: Korean1298Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: French1358Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: Spanish1319Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: Russian1324Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: Polish1326Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn1354Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: longer queries1344Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: writing and language1319Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: entertainment and media1300Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
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 VL 8B Instruct
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B 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 VL 8B Instruct$0.0006Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct$0.015Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct$0.058Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 8B 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 VL 8B Instruct
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 VL 8B Instruct
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 14, 2025October 14, 2025
Context window1.05M262K
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.25
Output $/Mtok$1.60$0.75
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 VL 8B 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 IFBench, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.25 and $0.75. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

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

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct comparison based on?

11 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 VL 8B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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