GPT-4o mini vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B
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GPT-4o mini vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B Comparison Table
Evals updated August 27, 2026Pricing updated August 28, 2026
| Property | GPT-4o mini | Qwen3.6 35B A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Jul 2024 | Apr 2026 |
| Context Window | 128K | 262K |
| Parameters | 35B total, 3B active | |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.150 | $0.100 |
| Output $/1M | $0.600 | $0.900 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Phrase Grounding | ||
| Video Classification | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
GPT-4o mini vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Overview
GPT-4o mini, launched by OpenAI in July 2024, is a lightweight, cost-efficient variant of GPT-4o designed for developers who need strong multimodal reasoning at scale. It supports text and vision inputs (with audio/video support planned) and offers a 128,000-token input context window with outputs up to ~16,000 tokens. Like GPT-4o, it has a knowledge cutoff of October 2023 and integrates the same safety mitigations against misuse and prompt attacks.
GPT-4o mini is significantly cheaper than full GPT-4o while outperforming older models such as GPT-3.5 Turbo. It achieves around 82% on MMLU, reflecting solid reasoning, math, and coding capabilities despite its efficiency focus. The model replaced GPT-3.5 Turbo as the default in ChatGPT for many users, making it widely accessible for everyday conversational AI, educational tools, content generation, and scalable multimodal applications where affordability and speed are priorities.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) multimodal language model developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Group. It carries 35 billion total parameters but activates only approximately 3 billion per forward pass via a learned routing mechanism, giving it the representational capacity of a large dense model at a fraction of the inference compute. The model is natively multimodal, processing images, documents, and video alongside text as a core architectural capability rather than an add-on. It supports a native context window of 262,144 tokens, extensible up to 1,010,000 tokens via YaRN. A key design feature is the unified thinking/non-thinking mode framework: users can switch between deliberate chain-of-thought reasoning and fast direct responses within a single model, and a "thinking preservation" option retains reasoning context across multi-turn agentic workflows to reduce redundant computation.
The model is specifically optimized for agentic coding tasks, including repository-level reasoning, frontend workflow generation, multi-step tool use, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration. On SWE-bench Verified it scores 73.4%, on Terminal-Bench 2.0 it scores 51.5%, and on MCPMark it scores 37.0%. For vision-language tasks it achieves 92.0 on RefCOCO, 89.9 on OmniDocBench 1.5, and 83.7 on VideoMMMU. The model also supports Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) for speculative decoding. All Qwen3.6 open-weight models are released under the Apache 2.0 license.