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GPT-5 Nano vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Compare GPT-5 Nano and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, OCR, and Open Prompt.

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GPT-5 Nano vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct Comparison Table

Evals updated July 24, 2026Pricing updated July 26, 2026

PropertyGPT-5 NanoQwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
OrganizationOpenAIQwen
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateAug 2025Jan 2025
Context Window400K33K
Parameters7B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.050
Output $/1M$0.400
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision

GPT-5 Nano vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct: Overview

GPT-5 Nano

GPT-5 Nano, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is the smallest and most cost-efficient model in the GPT-5 family. Like its larger counterparts, it is multimodal—accepting text and images, supporting tool use, structured outputs, and reasoning—but it is optimized for speed, low latency, and affordability. It features input and output token limits of roughly 272K and 128K tokens respectively, enabling large-context processing even at its compact scale. Its knowledge cutoff is around May 2024, slightly earlier than the full GPT-5 model.

GPT-5 Nano is well-suited for high-volume or cost-sensitive deployments such as mobile apps, embedded AI systems, or rapid-response APIs. While it offers less depth on complex reasoning and coding tasks compared to GPT-5 Mini or Pro, it retains core multimodal and agentic capabilities, making it an attractive option where efficiency and scale matter more than maximum performance.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion parameter vision-language model from Alibaba’s QwenLM team, released on January 26, 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. It is the instruction-tuned variant of the 7B scale in the Qwen2.5-VL family, designed to process multimodal inputs such as text, images, charts, documents, and video. The model enables structured outputs—including JSON for structured content and bounding boxes for visual localization. Weights are publicly available on Hugging Face and GitHub, making it suitable for both research and applied multimodal use.