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Updated Aug 2026

GPT-4.1 MinivsQwen3.8 Flash

Qwen3.8 Flash is cheaper than GPT-4.1 Mini at $0.15/M vs $0.4/M input tokens.

GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3.8 Flash compared across 10 shared prompts
SpecGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3.8 Flash
Input price$0.4/M tokens$0.15/M tokens
Output price$1.6/M tokens$0.47/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedApr 2025Aug 2026
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Opening lines from 5 of the 10 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

GPT-4.1 Mini162 words
Dish Name: Honey Garlic Chickpea Stir-fry Ingredients: 1 can chickpeas (drained and rinsed) 2 cloves garlic (minced) 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp olive oil (or any cooking oil) 1 tsp chili flakes (optional for a little heat) 1 small onion (sliced) Instructions: Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.
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Qwen3.8 Flash147 words
Moon Halo Cookies A soft, golden sugar cookie with crisp edges and a tender center—made with just 7 pantry staples. Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes Total time: 20 minutes Makes: About 16 cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup butter, softened 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

GPT-4.1 Mini458 words
Certainly! Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan focusing on Diet, Exercise, and Sleep—three foundational pillars for better health and longevity. Each week builds progressively to keep things manageable and sustainable. Week 1: Establish the Basics Diet: Start by drinking at least 8 glasses of water daily.
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Qwen3.8 Flash368 words
1-Month Beginner Health & Longevity Plan Focus areas: Nutrition, Movement, Sleep Week 1: Build the basics Nutrition Add 1 serving of vegetables to 2 meals per day. Drink water with each meal. Choose protein at most meals: eggs, beans, tofu, chicken, fish, yogurt. Movement Walk 10–15 minutes daily.
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

GPT-4.1 Mini437 words
Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with explanations and suggestions for improvement: Claim: "Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy."
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Qwen3.8 Flash1,901 words
The three weakest claims are the ones that most likely trigger investor due-diligence skepticism: technical overclaiming, metric ambiguity, and inconsistent market math. “MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it.”
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

GPT-4.1 Mini737 words
Certainly! Here are tailored explanations of how a large language model (LLM) like GPT or Claude learns and generates text, customized for each audience: Experienced Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & APIs, ML Skeptic) At its core, a large language model like GPT is indeed trained by predicting the next word in a…
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Qwen3.8 Flash983 words
For an experienced software engineer Training a large language model is not “just” making it guess the next word in isolation. It is fitting an enormous parameterized function to predict the next token conditioned on all previous tokens in a sequence.
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

GPT-4.1 Mini766 words
This is a complex, high-stakes crisis requiring rapid, transparent, and carefully coordinated action to balance legal, ethical, clinical, financial, and reputational risks.
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Qwen3.8 Flash3,570 words
Assuming this is a U.S.-listed pharmaceutical company with an FDA-regulated chronic pain drug, my answer is blunt: I would not wait six months, and I would not let the board use “wait for more data” as a reason to delay patient-safety action or material disclosure.
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Our Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash
Qwen3.8 Flash
GPT-4.1 Mini
GPT-4.1 MiniRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Qwen3.8 Flash has the edge: bigger model tier, newer.

Qwen3.8 Flash costs 3.4x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini
Input
$0.40
Output
$1.60
Qwen3.8 Flash
Input
$0.15
2.7× cheaper
Output
$0.47
3.4× cheaper

Qwen3.8 Flash is cheaper on both: 2.7× input, 3.4× output.

Where to run it

3 hosts

GPT-4.1 Mini2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Azure AI Foundry$0.40 in·$1.60 out·1M·99.9% upOpenAI$0.40 in·$1.60 out·1M·99.4% up
Qwen3.8 Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$0.15 in·$0.47 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

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GPT-4.1 Mini is developed by OpenAI while Qwen3.8 Flash is developed by Qwen. GPT-4.1 Mini has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.8 Flash's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 10 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3.8 Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 10 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.4/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 Flash costs $0.15/M input tokens. Qwen3.8 Flash is $0.25/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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