Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba Cloud |
| Family / tier | GPT-5 · mini | Qwen3 · Large |
| Status | GA | GA |
| Released | 2026-03-17 | 2025-04-29 |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-08 | 2024-10 |
| Context window | 400K | 131K |
| Max output tokens | 128K | 33K |
| Input modalities | text, image | text |
| Reasoning mode | optional | optional |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| Input | $0.75 | $0.2 |
| Output | $4.5 | $0.6 |
| Cached input | $0.075 | — |
| Batch input | $0.375 | — |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Output speed (tok/s) | 180 | 68 |
| Time to first token (s) | 0.5 | 0.78 |
| Latency tier | fast | medium |
| Trains on inputs | No | No |
| License | Proprietary | Apache-2.0 |
| Clouds | Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry | GCP |
| Compliance | SOC2, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA | — |
| Unified score | 9 | 8.5 |
| Decision Maker | 9 | 8 |
| Domain Strategist | 9 | 8.5 |
| Finance Lead | 10 | 9.5 |
| Domain Practitioner | 9 | 9 |
| Power User | 8 | 7.5 |
| Skeptic | 8.5 | 7 |
| Value score | 9.8 | 9.5 |