OpenAI o4-mini vs Qwen3 Coder Plus
Compare OpenAI o4-mini by OpenAI against Qwen3 Coder Plus by Qwen, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen3 Coder Plus
OpenAI o4-miniRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen3 Coder Plus has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
OpenAI o4-mini
Input
$1.10
Output
$4.40
1.1× cheaper
Qwen3 Coder Plus
Input
$1.00
1.1× cheaper
Output
$5.00
Qwen3 Coder Plus wins input (1.1× cheaper)·OpenAI o4-mini wins output (1.1× cheaper)
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
51%
Qwen3 Coder Plus uses 364.5x more bold
OpenAI o4-mini
Qwen3 Coder Plus
73%Vocabulary65%
15wSentence Length54w
0.18Hedging0.74
0.0Bold3.6
2.1Lists6.0
0.00Emoji0.15
0.00Headings1.72
0.02Transitions0.16
Based on 10 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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