GPT-4o-mini vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B leads GPT-4o-mini on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 17.7 to 6.7, and GPT-4o-mini costs 3.5x less per output token ($0.60 vs $2.08 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 7 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-4o-mini or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick GPT-4o-mini for output tokens 3.5x cheaper ($0.60 vs $2.08 per million) and work measured by AA Coding Index or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 7
- GPT-4o-mini only
- 22
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only
- 44
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 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
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B leads, 17.7 against 6.7.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-4o-mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 44.2%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-4o-mini has a AIME result, 11.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-4o-mini has a MMLU Pro result, 62.7%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B takes 262K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4o-mini
GPT-4o-mini $0.0004, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B $0.0013 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4o-mini not benchmarked, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- General, 32.2 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- IFBench: GPT-4o-mini 31.0% against Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 75.7%, 44.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4o-mini $0.60 against Qwen3.5-122B-A10B $2.08 per million output tokens, 3.5x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4o-mini takes 128K tokens, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 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.
| Category | GPT-4o-mini | Bars | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 3 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 7 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1361 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| AA Coding Index | 11.4 | 43.3 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 26.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 23.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 39.7% | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 31.1% | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1436 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1436 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1353 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1351 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| SciCode | 1.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 17.7 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.5 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 93.6% | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 44.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 56.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 42.6% | 85.7% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.2% | 25.2% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 17.0% | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1421 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1249 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1261 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 11.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 72.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 86.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| AA Math Index | 14.7 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 14.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| GSM8K | 91.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 62.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 45.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 60.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 54.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 72.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 64.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MMLU | 81.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1432 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1423 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1422 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1414 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 31.0% | 75.7% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 76.3% | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| DTBench | 54.4% | 84.3% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| LMCA | 10.4% | 32.2% | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
| PIQA | 88.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1417 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1399 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1368 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1244 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1428 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1401 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1463 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1425 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1367 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1353 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1443 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1425 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1400 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1398 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1416 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1410 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1387 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1366 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1249 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1301 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1251 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1243 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1220 | Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | 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
GPT-4o-mini costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini 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 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | July 18, 2024 | February 25, 2026 |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $0.26 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $2.08 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-4o-mini better than Qwen3.5-122B-A10B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4o-mini for output tokens 3.5x cheaper ($0.60 vs $2.08 per million) and work measured by AA Coding Index or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o-mini or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?
GPT-4o-mini costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.26 and $2.08. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4o-mini or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4o-mini vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B comparison based on?
7 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4o-mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.