Compare · ModelsLive · 2 picked · head to head

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct vs GPT-5.1

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Qwen2.5 7B Instruct · GPT-5.1 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
#169 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.1
#97 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
57.0x better value than GPT-5.1
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
502.9 pts/$
$0.07/M
GPT-5.1
8.8 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2.5 7B Instruct$0.04$0.1033K tokens (~16 books)$0.55
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38