GPT-5.5 vs Qwen3 Coder
Compare GPT-5.5 by OpenAI against Qwen3 Coder by Qwen, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-5.5
Qwen3 CoderRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-5.5 has the edge — newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Coder is 32x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-5.5
Input
$5.00
Output
$30.00
Qwen3 Coder
Input
$0.22
23× cheaper
Output
$0.95
32× cheaper
Qwen3 Coder is cheaper on both — 23× input, 32× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Qwen3 Coder uses 11.6x more emoji
GPT-5.5
Qwen3 Coder
58%Vocabulary61%
18wSentence Length72w
0.74Hedging0.61
2.9Bold4.7
5.1Lists5.6
0.00Emoji0.12
1.68Headings1.43
0.03Transitions0.20
Based on 26 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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