# O3 Mini vs Qwen2 5

As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen2 5 in 2 of 3 shared categories: General LLM and Reasoning.

O3 Mini: $1.9250000000000003 per 1M blended tokens.

Qwen2 5: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

O3 Mini: closed weights.

Qwen2 5: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen2 5 in General LLM at #10 against #182.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen2 5 in Reasoning at #172 against #185.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen2 5 leads O3 Mini in Long context at #175 against #186.

As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini is a former state-of-the-art holder in Reasoning (since Feb 9, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen2 5 is ranked #175 in Long context (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query); methodology v1.0).