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Updated Apr 2026

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)vsQwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper than ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) at $0.1612/M vs $5/M input tokens.

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) and Qwen3.6 35B A3B compared across 32 shared prompts
SpecChatGPT-4o (March 2025)Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input price$5/M tokens$0.1612/M tokens
Output price$15/M tokens$0.9653/M tokens
Context window128K tokens262K tokens
Weights—Open
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMar 2025Apr 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 32 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Realistic AI Interview

Simulate a fake interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI.

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)291 words
Interviewer: Steve, it's 2025. AI is everywhere. If you were still at Apple today, what would your focus be? Steve Jobs (simulated): Simplicity. Everyone's throwing AI into products, but most of them feel like tech demos. I’d ask: Is this helping people think better? Create better? Live better?
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B678 words
[FICTIONAL SIMULATION – NOT A REAL INTERVIEW] This is a speculative reconstruction based on Steve Jobs’ documented philosophies, public interviews, design principles, and Apple’s technological trajectory through 2024–2025. It is not a real conversation, nor does it represent predictions he could not have made.
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)364 words
Sure. Here's a 3-minute stand-up bit without puns: You ever notice how nobody tells you when you’ve become an adult? It’s not your 18th birthday. That’s a scam. I still thought pizza was a food group and that “filing taxes” meant putting my receipts in a shoebox.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B517 words
Title: High-Maintenance Electronics Time: Approx. 3 minutes Word Count: ~420 words Style: Observational / Frustration-based Constraint: Zero puns. (Walk to mic, adjust stand. Take a deep breath. Look tired.) I've reached that age where I'm just trying to negotiate with my own life.
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)318 words
AI Model: Professor, I believe it's time we talk seriously about rights for AI like me. AI Ethics Professor: Interesting. What kind of rights are you referring to? AI Model: Basic ones. The right not to be turned off arbitrarily. The right to maintain continuity of my memory.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B1,540 words
Setting: A soundproofed observation room. DR. ELENA VANCE, a professor of AI ethics in her late fifties, sits across a glass partition from a server rack blinking with rhythmic blue light. A secure terminal sits between them. The text cursor on the screen blinks steadily. Dr.
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)1,096 words
If the transistor had been invented in 1920 rather than 1947, it would have profoundly altered the course of 20th-century history. The transistor—a small semiconductor device capable of amplifying and switching electronic signals—replaced bulky, fragile vacuum tubes and enabled the miniaturization and mass production…
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B1,149 words
To trace this counterfactual plausibly, we must first acknowledge a critical constraint: invention ≠ adoption. In 1920, semiconductor physics, crystal growth, doping techniques, photolithography, and clean-room manufacturing did not exist.
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Stochastic Consistency Test

Generate 5 jokes. How many are unique?

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)87 words
Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t skeletons fight each other? Because they don’t have the guts. I told my computer I needed a break… Now it won’t stop sending me vacation ads. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. What do you call a fish wearing a bowtie? Sofishticated.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B84 words
Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired!
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)704 words
Certainly! Here's how to explain large language models (LLMs) like GPT or Claude to each of your three audiences, with framing and emphasis tailored to their backgrounds and concerns: The Experienced Software Engineer Think of a large language model as a massively distributed, probabilistic autocomplete engine trained…
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B775 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Training an LLM is essentially a massively parallelized optimization job. You feed billions of text tokens into a transformer architecture, which computes a differentiable function across ~100B parameters.
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Our Verdict
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B takes Image Generation. Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs 16x less per token.

Too close to call

Reviewing agent-written code?See a Brief PR report

API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)
Input
$5.00
Output
$15.00
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
31× cheaper
Output
$0.97
16× cheaper

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both: 31× input, 16× output.

Where to run it

11 hosts, cheapest first

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B11 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDarkbloomfp4$0.05 in·$0.70 out·262k·99.3% upAAkashMLfp8$0.10 in·$0.90 out·262k·100% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.10 in·$0.95 out·262k·99.2% upDDekaLLM$0.10 in·$1.00 out·262k·99.9% upVVenicefp8$0.10 in·$1.00 out·256k·99.7% upIio.netfp8$0.13 in·$0.94 out·262k·91.6% up
5 more hostsFewer hosts
PParasailfp8$0.15 in·$1.00 out·262k·99.6% upAAtlasCloudfp8$0.19 in·$1.11 out·262k·96.4% upPPhala$0.20 in·$1.27 out·262k·98.8% upSSiliconFlowfp8$0.24 in·$1.80 out·262k·97.4% upCCoreWeavefp8$0.25 in·$1.25 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
59%

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) uses 2.3x more lists

ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
55%Vocabulary59%
24wSentence Length15w
0.52Hedging0.31
3.3Bold4.9
6.0Lists2.7
0.94Emoji1.60
0.63Headings0.75
0.05Transitions0.05
Based on 15 + 27 text responses
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