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GPT-5 Mini vs Qwen 3 Max
OpenAI vs Qwen. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.
Verdict
Qwen 3 Max leads on LMSYS ELO (1295 vs 1288). GPT-5 Mini is ~3.2× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend. Qwen 3 Max is open-weights, the other is proprietary.
OpenAI
GPT-5 MiniGPT-5’s smaller, cheaper sibling. Optimized for chat and lightweight agent tasks.
Very low latencyCheap enough for mass consumer apps
Qwen
Qwen 3 MaxAlibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.
MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding
Pricing
Input / 1M$0.50$1.60
Output / 1M$2.00$6.40
Context256K128K
Max output16K16K
LicenseProprietaryOpen weights
Released2026-01-212025-11-20
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1288.01295.0
MMLU Pro78.584.0
HumanEval85.587.2
MATH79.885.1
MMMU—71.8
IFEval85.485.5
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.0085$0.027
Review a 500-line pull request$0.0080$0.026
Answer a customer support ticket$0.0031$0.0099
Extract structured data from a resume$0.0045$0.014
Debug a stack trace with context$0.0070$0.022
Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.