Price Per TokenPrice Per Token
Deepseek
Deepseek
vs
OpenAI
OpenAI

R1 Distill Qwen 32B vs GPT-5 Mini

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

Get our weekly newsletter on pricing changes, new releases, and tools.

Join the Price Per Token Community

Key Takeaways

R1 Distill Qwen 32B wins:

  • Cheaper output tokens

GPT-5 Mini wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports vision
Price Advantage
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5 Mini
Context Window
GPT-5 Mini
Speed
GPT-5 Mini

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureR1 Distill Qwen 32BGPT-5 Mini
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyR1 Distill Qwen 32BGPT-5 Mini
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorDeepseekOpenAI
ReleasedJan 2025Aug 2025

R1 Distill Qwen 32B Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

GPT-5 Mini Modalities

Input
textimagefile
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

GPT-5 Mini has cheaper input pricing at $0.25/M tokens. R1 Distill Qwen 32B has cheaper output pricing at $0.29/M tokens.
R1 Distill Qwen 32B has a 32,768 token context window, while GPT-5 Mini has a 400,000 token context window.
R1 Distill Qwen 32B does not support vision. GPT-5 Mini supports vision.