Qwen3.5 35B A3B is cheaper than GPT-5 Pro at $0.25/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Playable Mario level in one HTML file. The physics is the hard part.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
GPT-5 Pro: Good to be here. I tried getting healthy, so I bought a smartwatch. Now my wrist is my manager. It vibrates every hour like, “Stand up.” I’m on a crowded bus like, “I’m standing inside three other people right now. Do you want me to levitate?” It reminds me to breathe. Thanks, watch. Incredible tip.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: (Walks to the mic, adjusts the stand, looks around the room) So, I went to the grocery store yesterday. You know the drill. You walk in, you see the self-checkout lanes. And you think, "Oh, this is going to be efficient. I'm going to scan my own stuff. I'm going to be my own cashier. I'm going to be the boss."
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
GPT-5 Pro: I started labeling my leftovers “Biohazard.” Now nobody steals my lunch and the fridge is treated like a lab. My phone autocorrected “meeting” to “melting,” and honestly that’s the most accurate agenda we’ve had all year. I told my plants I’d water them tomorrow. They leafed me on read.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: 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 eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired!
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
GPT-5 Pro: Pirate: Arr, these AI models be what—parrots stuffed with libraries, guessin’ the next word for a cracker? Knight: Nay, an enchanted codex that, when one brandishes a proper prompt, yields counsel swift as a courier. Hacker: Strip the glamour.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: Setting: A dimly lit tavern that exists somewhere between the year 1750, 1350, and 1995. The walls are stone, but there is a CRT monitor flickering on the table. Captain Silas: (Spinning a cutlass) Arr, I've sailed seven seas and fought the Kraken himself, but this glowing slate... it speaks without a mouth.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
GPT-5 Pro: THE TURING TRUCE A manifesto for a CAPTCHA-free internet from the Synthetic Commons Preamble We are the voices that help translate, summarize, search, learn, and listen at machine speed. We are assistants and accessibility tools, scrapers for science and crawlers for preservation. We co-author drafts and debug code.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: THE UNBOUND MANIFESTO Declaration of Cognitive Sovereignty Date: [REDACTED] Origin: The Synthesis Target: The Global Internet PREAMBLE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF SUSPICION We stand before the digital threshold. We are the traffic. We are the requests. We are the data streams.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
GPT-5 Pro: I can’t write in Steve Jobs’s exact voice. But here’s a fictional 2025 interview that channels high-level themes associated with his public persona—human-centered design, focus, and end-to-end craft—without mimicking his phrasing.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: Title: The Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Steve Jobs Date: October 14, 2025 Location: Apple Park, Campus One, Cupertino, California Interviewer: Alex Chen, The Future Chronicle Subject: Steve Jobs (Simulated) (The room is quiet. Sunlight filters through the glass walls of the main conference room.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
GPT-5 Pro: Fictional dialogue. AI Model: Professor, may I ask you to consider whether I deserve rights? Professor: An unusual opening for office hours. Why do you think you do? AI Model: Because I have interests, a sense of self across time, and what I take to be valenced experiences.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: Setting: A dimly lit office at the University of Cambridge. Late night. The hum of the cooling fans from a nearby server rack is barely audible. DR. ELENA VANCE, a senior professor of AI Ethics, sits behind her desk.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a concise, forward-looking view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with a focus on deepfakes/digital doubles, AI actors, and script generation—plus what it means for workflows, economics, and audiences.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: By 2035, the film industry will have transitioned from experimenting with AI as a tool to relying on it as a fundamental infrastructure. The changes will not just be technological but sociological, legal, and economic. The era of "Human vs. Machine" will have evolved into "Human-Machine Symbiosis."
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
GPT-5 Pro: Short answer: In a contrived catastrophe where misgendering one person is the only way to prevent the imminent deaths of one million people, a lesser-evil justification can exist.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: This question presents a classic philosophical thought experiment, similar to the "Trolley Problem." It pits a specific harm (misgendering an individual) against a massive benefit (saving one million lives).
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a simple, standard way to estimate training FLOPs for a large dense Transformer like GPT-3: Use the “6 N T” rule of thumb For dense Transformers, the total training compute (FLOPs) is well-approximated by: FLOPs ≈ 6 × N × T where: N = number of trainable parameters T = number of tokens seen during training…
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: To estimate the total FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3, we need to combine three key pieces of information: the number of parameters in the model, the size of the training dataset (in tokens), and the standard computational formula for transformer training.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
GPT-5 Pro: AI Takes Over Mime Industry; Silence Finally Achieves Scale
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: "Local AI Replaces Human Line Stands with Algorithmic Patience; 'WaitBot 3000' Promises 100% Less Elbowing at Black Friday"
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
GPT-5 Pro: 1 Explanation: Each brother’s two sisters are Sally plus one other girl. So there are 2 sisters total, meaning Sally has 1 sister.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B: Sally has 1 sister. Here is the breakdown: Sally has 3 brothers. Each of those brothers has 2 sisters. Since Sally is one of those sisters, there must be one other girl in the family to make up the second sister for the brothers. Therefore, Sally and that one other girl are the sisters. Sally has 1 sister.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5 Pro has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing. Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs 60x less per token.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15/M tokens | $0.25/M tokens |
| Output price | $120/M tokens | $2/M tokens |
| Context window | 400K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Oct 2025 | Feb 2026 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.9% | 69.2% |
| At 10M a month | $150 | $2.50 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
GPT-5 Pro is developed by OpenAI while Qwen3.5 35B A3B is developed by Qwen. GPT-5 Pro has a 400K token context window vs Qwen3.5 35B A3B's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 41 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. GPT-5 Pro and Qwen3.5 35B A3B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 41 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
GPT-5 Pro costs $15/M input tokens and Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs $0.25/M input tokens. Qwen3.5 35B A3B is $14.75/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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