GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

GPT-4.1 Mini at $0.460 in and $1.84 out and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B at $0.334 in and $2.76 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

GPT-4.1 Mini

OpenAI

0.38¢

for a client proposal

$0.460 in · $1.84 out / 1M

1.05M context · released April 2025

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Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Qwen

0.39¢

for a client proposal

$0.334 in · $2.76 out / 1M

262K context · released 5 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.76¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B at $0.334 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: GPT-4.1 Mini at $1.84 per million tokens.
Largest context: GPT-4.1 Mini at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

GPT-4.1 Mini

0.18¢

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

0.2¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

GPT-4.1 Mini

0.38¢

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

0.39¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

GPT-4.1 Mini

$0.08

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

$0.06

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

GPT-4.1 Mini

1.8¢

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

1.4¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

GPT-4.1 Mini

$0.12

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

$0.09

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

GPT-4.1 Mini

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

GPT-4.1 Mini

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.460

$0.334

Output / 1M tokens

$1.84

$2.76

Cached input / 1M

$0.115

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Web search

1.1¢ / search

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Specs

GPT-4.1 Mini

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Provider

OpenAI

Qwen

Released

April 2025

5 months ago

Context window

1.05M

262K

Max output

33K

82K

Input

Images, Text, and Files

Text, Images, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-06-30

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

GPT-4.1 Mini

OpenAI

0.18¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Qwen

0.2¢

for this task

33% input · 67% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.39¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,286 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GPT-4.1 Mini has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, GPT-4.1 Mini is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.38¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

GPT-4.1 Mini pricing →Qwen3.5-122B-A10B pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GPT-4.1 Mini at 0.38¢; Qwen3.5-122B-A10B at 0.39¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GPT-4.1 Mini — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.76¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.76¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.