OpenAI o3 Mini vs Qwen3.7 Max
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- o3 Mini is 1.1× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen3.7 Max accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 200K tokens.
- Qwen3.7 Max's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 0.0%.
- Qwen3.7 Max is the newer model (released 2026-05-21).
| o3 Mini | Qwen3.7 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-01-31 | 2026-05-21 |
| Input / 1M | $1.10 | $1.48 |
| Output / 1M | $4.40 | $4.42 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.55 | $0.295 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $1.93 | $2.21 |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 100K | 131K |
| Accepts | text, file | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 2 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $4.40 | $4.42 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 0.0% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
o3 Mini
$132 per month$4.40 per day
Qwen3.7 Max
$155 per month$5.16 per day
o3 Mini saves $22.87 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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