Model comparison
o4 Mini vs Qwen 3.6 Plus
OpenAI
o4 Mini
Fast, cheap reasoning for high-volume intelligent tasks.
Alibaba
Qwen 3.6 Plus
Alibaba's broad open-weights family, strong on multilingual.
Specs
| Metric | o4 Mini | Qwen 3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1M tokens↑ |
| Input $/1M tokens | $1.10 | $0.325↑ |
| Output $/1M tokens | $4.40 | $1.95↑ |
| Modalities | Image · Text · File | Text · Image · Video |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| Released | - | Sep 2024 |
Capability differences
| Capability | o4 Mini | Qwen 3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Extended thinking | Yes | No |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
Key differences
- -o4 Mini offers 200K context; Qwen 3.6 Plus offers 1M.
- -Input pricing: o4 Mini at $1.10/1M vs Qwen 3.6 Plus at $0.325/1M.
- -Qwen 3.6 Plus is open weights; o4 Mini is proprietary.