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GPT-5 Mini vs Qwen3 235B A22B
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Winner summary
GPT-5 Mini wins on 4/4 benchmarks
GPT-5 Mini wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · coding.
Category leads
knowledge·GPT-5 Minimath·GPT-5 Minicoding·GPT-5 Mini
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
GPT-5 Mini
#63 by perf·no signal
Qwen3 235B A22B
#58 by perf·no signal
Best value
GPT-5 Mini
1.0x better value than Qwen3 235B A22B
GPT-5 Mini
49.8 pts/$
$1.13/M
Qwen3 235B A22B
49.6 pts/$
$1.14/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
4 benchmarks · 2 models
GPT-5 MiniQwen3 235B A22B
Fiction.LiveBench
GPT-5 Mini leads by +1.7
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
GPT-5 Mini
69.4
Qwen3 235B A22B
67.7
GPQA diamond
GPT-5 Mini leads by +5.7
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5 Mini
66.7
Qwen3 235B A22B
60.9
MATH level 5
GPT-5 Mini leads by +29.0
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
GPT-5 Mini
97.8
Qwen3 235B A22B
68.9
WeirdML
GPT-5 Mini leads by +15.4
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5 Mini
52.7
Qwen3 235B A22B
37.3
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Qwen3 235B A22B |
|---|---|---|
Fiction.LiveBench Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination. | 69.4 | 67.7 |
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 66.7 | 60.9 |
MATH level 5 MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics. | 97.8 | 68.9 |
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns. | 52.7 | 37.3 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5 Mini | $0.25 | $2.00 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $6.88 |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.46 | $1.82 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $7.96 |