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GPT-4o mini vs Qwen3.7 Flash

Compare GPT-4o mini and Qwen3.7 Flash side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Open Prompt, Image Captioning, OCR, Object Detection, and Classification.

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GPT-4o mini vs Qwen3.7 Flash Comparison Table

Evals updated September 5, 2026Pricing updated September 20, 2026

PropertyGPT-4o miniQwen3.7 Flash
OrganizationOpenAIQwen
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJul 2024Jul 2026
Context Window128K1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.150$0.030
Output $/1M$0.600$0.130
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallDeprecated
61.5%
Avg cost / sample$0.0001
Avg speed / sample6.28s
By task
Object Detection
42.8%
$0.0001
Counting
46.0%
<$0.0001
Identification
84.4%
<$0.0001
OCR
84.1%
$0.0001
Data Extraction
77.3%
<$0.0001
Reasoning (low)
34.4%
<$0.0001
Reasoning (high)
61.6%
$0.0005

GPT-4o mini vs Qwen3.7 Flash: Overview

GPT-4o mini

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.

Qwen3.7 Flash

Qwen3.7 Flash is the low-latency, cost-oriented tier of Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series, a vision-language reasoning model that accepts interleaved text and image input and returns text. It is built as a hybrid thinking model: like the rest of the Qwen3.7, Qwen3.6, and Qwen3.5 families served through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, it can either emit an explicit reasoning trace before answering or respond directly, with thinking behavior controlled by an enable_thinking switch that defaults to on for the Qwen3.7 generation. The model exposes a context window of roughly one million tokens and a maximum generation length of 65,536 tokens, which allows long multi-image sequences, long documents, and extended agent trajectories to be held in a single request.

Functionally, Qwen3.7 Flash targets multimodal agent workloads rather than pure chat. Reported strengths include object recognition, spatial understanding, and perception of real-world scenes, alongside visual coding, search, and computer-use style interaction where the model reads screen content and reasons over interface state. Weights are not published; the model is a proprietary endpoint positioned below Qwen3.7 Plus and Qwen3.7 Max in the same series, and it supports function calling and tool use for agentic pipelines.