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o4 Mini vs Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking (Comparative Analysis)

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Comparative Analysis: o4 Mini vs. Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
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Overview

o4 Mini was released 6 months before Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking.
o4 Minio4 Mini
Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingQwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Model Provider
The organization behind this AI's development
OpenAI logoOpenAI
Qwen logoQwen
Input Context Window
Maximum input tokens this model can process at once
200K
tokens
256K
tokens
Output Token Limit
Maximum output tokens this model can generate at once
100K
tokens
32.8K
tokens
Release Date
When this model first became publicly available
April 16th, 2025
October 14th, 2025

Capabilities & Features

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o4 Mini
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Input Types
Supported input formats
🖼️Image📝Text📁File
🖼️Image📝Text
Output Types
Supported output formats
📝Text
📝Text
Tokenizer
Text encoding system
GPTQwen3
Key Features
Advanced capabilities
Function CallingStructured OutputReasoning ModeContent Moderation
Function CallingStructured OutputReasoning ModeContent Moderation
Open Source
Model availability
ProprietaryAvailable on HuggingFace →

Pricing

o4 Mini is roughly 6.1x more expensive compared to Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking for input tokens and roughly 2.1x more expensive for output tokens.
o4 Minio4 Mini
Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingQwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Input Token Cost
Cost per million input tokens
$1.10
per million tokens
$0.18
per million tokens
Output Token Cost
Cost per million outut tokens
$4.40
per million tokens
$2.10
per million tokens

Benchmarks

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o4 Minio4 Mini
Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingQwen3 VL 8B Thinking
MMLU
Measures knowledge across 57 subjects like law, math, history, and science
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.
MMMU
Measures understanding of combined text and images across various domains
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.
HellaSwag
Measures common sense reasoning by having models complete sentences about everyday situations
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.

At a Glance

Quick overview of what makes o4 Mini and Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking unique.
OpenAI logoo4 Mini by OpenAI understands both text and images, can use external tools and APIs, offers advanced reasoning, generates structured data. It can handle standard conversations with its 200K token context window. Reasonably priced at $1.10/M input and $4.40/M output tokens. Includes built-in content moderation for safer outputs. Released April 16th, 2025.
Qwen logoQwen3 VL 8B Thinking by Qwen understands both text and images, can use external tools and APIs, offers advanced reasoning, generates structured data. It can handle standard conversations with its 256K token context window. Reasonably priced at $0.18/M input and $2.10/M output tokens. Released October 14th, 2025.

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