Compare GPT 4o Mini from OpenAI and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GPT 4o Mini
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewThe lightweight version of GPT-4o, which is affordable and fast, suitable for handling simple tasks; our site supports the official automatic caching for this model, and charges for cache hits will be automatically halved.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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GPT 4o Mini: $0.6/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; GPT 4o Mini: 1349 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GPT 4o Mini: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GPT 4o Mini accepts 128,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 16,384 tokens on GPT 4o Mini and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
GPT 4o Mini at 48.4 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
GPT 4o Mini accepts text and image input; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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