Qwen3 Coder is cheaper than GPT-5.2 Chat at $0.22/M vs $1.75/M input tokens.
| Spec | GPT-5.2 Chat | Qwen3 Coder |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $1.75/M tokens | $0.22/M tokens |
| Output price | $14/M tokens | $0.95/M tokens |
| Context window | 128K tokens | — |
| Weights | Closed | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Dec 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.0% | 69.6% |
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.
Qwen3 Coder costs 15x less per token.
Qwen3 Coder is cheaper on both: 8.0× input, 15× output.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 9 Sep 2026.
Qwen3 Coder uses 3.8x more sentence length