GPT-5.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare GPT-5.5 by OpenAI against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 1.1M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-5.5
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-5.5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 38x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-5.5
Input
$5.00
Output
$30.00
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
25× cheaper
Output
$0.80
38× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 25× input, 38× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
44%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 103.6x more emoji
GPT-5.5
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
58%Vocabulary55%
18wSentence Length18w
0.74Hedging0.52
2.9Bold6.7
5.1Lists4.3
0.00Emoji1.04
1.68Headings0.92
0.03Transitions0.11
Based on 26 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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