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o4 Mini vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

o4 Mini leads Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 16.7 to 11.9, and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs 2.9x less per output token ($1.50 vs $4.40 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 48 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace o4 Mini Replace Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
o4 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
43.0
Output $/M
$4.40
21
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.50
27
vs boards won of 48 shared

o4 Mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick o4 Mini for work measured by SWE-bench Verified or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Model Ao4 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BQwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwenNot benchmarked1 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
48
o4 Mini only
50
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B only
5
Like-for-like categories
8 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
o4 Mini not benchmarked, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B not benchmarked.
Widest category
Math, 27.2 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
AA Math Index: o4 Mini 90.7 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 39.3, 51.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
o4 Mini $4.40 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $1.50 per million output tokens, 2.9x apart.
Context window
o4 Mini takes 200K 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.

Boards won, where both have a result
Categoryo4 MiniBarsQwen3 Coder 480B A35BTies
Coding25
Intelligence10
Agentic work10
Reasoning42
Math40
Knowledge32
Web design05
General613
All shared boards2127
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index25
Coding benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
Aider polyglot72.0%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified64.6%69.6%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
SWE-bench Multimodal33.9%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena WebDevNot measured1275Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)82.2%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)85.9%58.5%o4 Mini
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)15.2%18.9%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Terminal-BenchNot measured27.2%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
GSO-Bench3.6%4.9%Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
WeirdML52.6%41.2%o4 Mini
ALE-BenchNot measured461.4Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
LMArena Text: coding13681412Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: software and IT13671393Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1257Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1287Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
SciCode10.8%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
AA Intelligence Index16.711.9o4 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index145.5Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom55.6%43.6%o4 Mini
METR time horizons63.9%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)53.2%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index42
Reasoning benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
GPQA Diamond74.5%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)79.7%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)78.4%61.8%o4 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)16.5%4.5%o4 Mini
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)79.6%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
ARC-AGI58.7%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-26.1%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
SimpleBench38.7%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Chess puzzles22.0%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles5.0%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
VPCT57.5%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13511372Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: expert13431338o4 Mini
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13661380Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Vision: diagrams1197Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1234Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%49.5%o4 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
AIME83.7%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)94.2%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MGSM (Vals AI)93.4%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
AA Math Index90.739.3o4 Mini
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)90.7%39.3%o4 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME81.7%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 336.1%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tier 44.9%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MATH level 597.8%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math13891365o4 Mini
LMArena Text: mathematical work13791367o4 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index32
Knowledge benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
MMLU Pro80.6%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)79.2%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)59.0%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)74.8%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)64.8%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MedQA (Vals AI)96.0%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MedCode (Vals AI)33.8%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)83.2%78.8%o4 Mini
SimpleQA Verified19.6%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
GeoBench64.0%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13541347o4 Mini
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13611347o4 Mini
LMArena Text: legal and government13501358Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: business and finance13251343Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
FACTS Benchmark Suite28.1%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Web design benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
Design Arena: websites9851158Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: UI components9831110Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: game dev10031098Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: data viz9911084Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Design Arena: 3D854Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Design Arena: all code categories9761142Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index613
General benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)41.1%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)69.1%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
IFBench68.7%40.5%o4 Mini
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)61.0%45.7%o4 Mini
DTBench77.6%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMCA26.5%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)75.0%Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Text13531357Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: instruction following13201355Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: creative writing12941333Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Vision1194Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13671359o4 Mini
LMArena Text: non-English13371346Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Chinese13541357Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: German13361325o4 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese13081311Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Korean13121305o4 Mini
LMArena Text: French13641398Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Spanish13461360Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Russian13341366Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: Polish13581344o4 Mini
LMArena Text: multi-turn13501366Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: longer queries13151378Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: writing and language13161340Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13081317Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
LMArena Vision: English1200Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1218Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1197Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humor1199Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1204Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1218Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1166Not measuredOnly o4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Benchmarko4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
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

o4 Mini$0.0033Fits in one request
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.0010Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

o4 Mini$0.068Fits in one request
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.019Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

o4 Mini$0.264Exceeds the context window
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.075Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
SpecificationOpenAI o4 MiniQwen3 Coder 480B A35B
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 16, 2025July 23, 2025
Context window200K262K
Input $/Mtok$1.10$0.30
Output $/Mtok$4.40$1.50
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it01
Cost per solved taskNot computableNot computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is o4 Mini better than Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick o4 Mini for work measured by SWE-bench Verified or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, o4 Mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

o4 Mini costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 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, o4 Mini or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks is the o4 Mini vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B comparison based on?

48 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. o4 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.

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