GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) vs Qwen3.7 Flash
Qwen3.7 Flash costs 4.6x less per output token than GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) ($0.13 vs $0.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 4 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) or Qwen3.7 Flash: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) for work measured by GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) or Mystery game puzzles, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 4
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) only
- 42
- Qwen3.7 Flash only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 2 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.7 Flash
Qwen3.7 Flash takes 1M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.7 Flash
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.0004, Qwen3.7 Flash $0.0001 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) not benchmarked, Qwen3.7 Flash not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 49.2 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 6.9% against Qwen3.7 Flash 86.7%, 79.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.60 against Qwen3.7 Flash $0.13 per million output tokens, 4.6x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) takes 128K tokens, Qwen3.7 Flash 1M.
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.
| Category | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Bars | Qwen3.7 Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 4 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 3.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| WeirdML | 11.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 420.1 | Only Qwen3.7 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1290 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1291 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 144.1 | Only Qwen3.7 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 17.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 41 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 37.7% | 82.3% | Qwen3.7 Flash |
| SimpleBench | 10.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Chess puzzles | 3.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 12.0% | 15.0% | Qwen3.7 Flash |
| VPCT | 34.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1267 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1234 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1278 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 6.9% | 86.7% | Qwen3.7 Flash |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 0.7% | 19.3% | Qwen3.7 Flash |
| MATH level 5 | 52.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1267 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1271 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| MMLU | 76.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| GeoBench | 64.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1286 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1282 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1305 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1265 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 67.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text | 1286 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1258 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1268 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1066 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1301 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1266 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1265 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1272 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1216 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1195 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1297 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1276 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1275 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1244 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1285 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1289 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1282 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1253 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1072 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1033 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Qwen3.7 Flash costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.7 Flash costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.7 Flash 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.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 18, 2024 | July 27, 2026 |
| Context window | 128K | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $0.03 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $0.13 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) better than Qwen3.7 Flash for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) for work measured by GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) or Mystery game puzzles, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) or Qwen3.7 Flash?
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Flash costs $0.03 and $0.13. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) or Qwen3.7 Flash?
Qwen3.7 Flash, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) vs Qwen3.7 Flash comparison based on?
4 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)'s coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.7 Flash's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.