GPT-4o-mini vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Updated October 21, 2026. 8 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
GPT-4o-mini has the edge where output tokens cost 2.5x less, and where what matters is LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 8
- GPT-4o-mini only
- 19
- Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B only
- 44
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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 Coder 480B A35B
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B leads, 11.9 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
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B has a Design Arena: websites result, 1159.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B takes 262K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4o-mini
GPT-4o-mini $0.0004, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4o-mini not benchmarked, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 35.1 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run): GPT-4o-mini 23.4% against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 58.5%, 35.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4o-mini $0.60 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $1.50 per million output tokens, 2.5x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4o-mini takes 128K tokens, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 Coder 480B A35B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 1 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 8 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 69.6% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1275 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| AA Coding Index | 11.4 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 26.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 23.4% | 58.5% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 18.9% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 27.2% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 4.9% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 41.2% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 461.4 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1412 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1393 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1257 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1287 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 11.9 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| 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 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 43.6% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | 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% | 61.8% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.2% | 4.5% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1372 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1338 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1380 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | 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 | 39.3 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 14.7% | 39.3% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| GSM8K | 91.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1365 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1367 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | 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% | 78.8% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| MMLU | 81.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1347 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1347 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1358 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1343 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1159 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1113 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1099 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1084 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1143 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 31.0% | 40.5% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 45.7% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| DTBench | 54.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMCA | 10.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| PIQA | 88.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1357 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1355 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1333 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1359 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1346 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1357 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1325 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1311 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1305 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1398 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1360 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1366 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1344 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1366 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1378 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1340 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1317 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | 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 Coder 480B A35B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | July 18, 2024 | July 23, 2025 |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $1.50 |
| 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 Coder 480B A35B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. GPT-4o-mini has the edge where output tokens cost 2.5x less, and where what matters is LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o-mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
GPT-4o-mini costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs $0.30 and $1.50. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4o-mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4o-mini vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B comparison based on?
8 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-4o-mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.