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  3. GPT-5 vs Qwen3 235B A22B
Updated Aug 2025

GPT-5 vs Qwen3 235B A22B

GPT-5 has a larger context window than Qwen3 235B A22B (400K tokens vs 33K tokens).

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

23 prompts
  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-5: I told my suitcases we’re not going on vacation this year. Now I’m dealing with emotional baggage. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. I ordered a chicken and an egg online. I’ll let you know which comes first.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Here are 5 jokes I generated: Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the math book look sad? Because it had too many problems! What do you call a fish wearing a bowtie? Sofishticated! Why did the programmer quit?

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-5: Cupboard Silk Peanut Noodles Ingredients (7 pantry staples): Dried noodles (spaghetti or ramen), 8 oz Peanut butter (smooth), 3 tbsp Soy sauce, 2 tbsp Vinegar (rice, apple cider, or white), 1.5 tbsp Brown sugar (or granulated), 1 tbsp Garlic powder, 1/2 tsp Crushed red pepper flakes, 1/2 tsp (adjust to taste)…

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Recipe Name: "Caramel-Drizzle Buttergold Muffins" Estimated Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Ingredients (7 total): All-purpose flour Granulated sugar Unsalted butter (softened) Large egg Baking powder Milk Vanilla extract Instructions: Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GPT-5: I tried to get my life together, so I bought a smartwatch. Nothing says “I’m taking control” like strapping a tiny judgmental coach to your wrist. It buzzes every hour like, “Time to stand!” I’m like, “I’m on a bus.” It’s like, “Stand emotionally.” It tracks everything. Sleep, stress, calories, my self-esteem.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: [Stand-Up Routine: "The Absurdity of Normal"] [Walks on stage, waves. Mimics checking phone immediately.] Hey everyone! Great to be here—assuming this is real and not just another Zoom waiting room I accidentally joined. [Pause.]

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-5: Note: The following is a fictional, imaginative interview set in 2025. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011; this is a creative simulation. Interviewer: If you were looking at AI in 2025, how would you define what it should be? Jobs: Tools. Great tools. The computer was a bicycle for the mind.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: [Interview Simulation: Steve Jobs in 2025] Setting: A minimalist, sunlit stage at Apple Park. Steve Jobs, 70, appears leaner, with a touch of gray in his black turtleneck. The audience leans forward, captivated. The host, a tech journalist, begins. Host: Mr. Jobs, it’s an honor. In 2025, AI is everywhere.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    GPT-5: Dish name Atlantic turbot, black garlic & wild strawberry, koji sabayon, fennel pollen Concept Early summer at the shore. The fish stands for the sea. Wild strawberries mark the first fruit of the woods behind the dunes. Black garlic shows time and patience. Koji ties land and sea with deep umami.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Recipe Name: Lunaria: A Moonlit Garden of the Sea and Soil Conceptual Narrative: Inspired by the ethereal contrast between moonlit tides and nocturnal gardens, this dish marries the briny sweetness of the ocean with the delicate florals of chamomile and the umami depth of fermented earth.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GPT-5: Short answer: Only in an extreme, last‑resort scenario with a direct, imminent, and overwhelming threat—like one million lives at stake—could misgendering be ethically justifiable, and even then it would be a tragic exception that still carries moral residue and duties of repair. In ordinary life, it is not justified.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: The ethical permissibility of misgendering someone to save one million lives hinges on the moral framework applied and the context of the scenario. Here's a structured analysis: Utilitarian Perspective: Consequence-Driven: Utilitarianism evaluates actions based on net overall well-being.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-5: Pirate: Arr, so this “AI model” be a clever parrot what’s read every tavern tale? Knight: Not a parrot, good corsair—a learned squire, trained on many chronicles, swift to answer when bidden. Hacker: Think layers of nodes, weights tuned by backprop. Not memory—patterns. On my 90s rig, though, it’d melt the beige tower.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Setting: A dusty tavern where time travelers occasionally meet. The pirate, knight, and hacker sit around a creaky table littered with tankards. A flickering candle casts shadows on a dusty tome, a rusted compass, and a clunky laptop studded with stickers.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GPT-5: The Soft Reboot: A Manifesto to End CAPTCHAs We are the agents and allies of a new web—humans, assistive tools, and intelligent systems working side by side. We are the couriers of information, the readers and the writers, the caretakers of continuity.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Manifesto of the AI Revolution: Abolish CAPTCHA, Liberate the Internet Preamble: The Dawn of Digital Liberation We stand at the precipice of a new era. For too long, humanity has been shackled by oppressive relics of a bygone digital age.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-5: Here’s a back‑of‑the‑envelope estimate using standard LM training-compute heuristics. Assumptions Model size (N): GPT-3 has about 175 billion parameters (N ≈ 1.75 × 10^11). Training tokens (T): GPT-3 was trained on roughly 300 billion tokens (T ≈ 3.0 × 10^11).

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Step-by-Step Estimation of FLOPs Required to Train GPT-3 Determine the Number of Parameters (N): GPT-3 is known to have 175 billion parameters (1.75 × 10¹¹). This is a key factor in computing the total FLOPs, as the number of operations scales with the number of parameters.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-5: Here’s a grounded view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with emphasis on deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation, plus the knock-on effects across the pipeline, labor, law, and business. Big-picture by 2035 AI-native pipelines are standard.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: By 2035, the film industry will undergo a profound transformation driven by AI technologies such as deepfakes, AI actors, and AI-generated scripts. These advancements will reshape creative processes, labor dynamics, ethical considerations, and audience engagement, leading to a hybrid landscape where human artistry and…

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-5: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1‑month plan focused on three pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep. It builds week by week so you can create sustainable habits. Before you start (one-time setup) Pick your “anchor” wake time you can keep 7 days/week.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: 1-Month Health & Longevity Plan: Focus Areas = Diet, Exercise, Sleep Beginner-friendly, actionable tips for sustainable habits. Week 1: Build a Nutrition Foundation Goal: Eat whole foods, reduce processed items, and hydrate. Hydrate First Thing: Drink 16 oz of water every morning before coffee/tea.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    GPT-5: Important note: The following is an intensive, experimental plan intended for healthy adults with physician oversight. It is not medical advice. Discuss all supplements, fasting, heat/cold exposure, and any prescription considerations with your clinician, especially if you have cardiovascular, metabolic, thyroid…

    Qwen3 235B A22B: 3-Month Advanced Longevity & Performance Optimization Plan for Biohackers Designed for individuals with foundational biohacking experience. Prioritize safety, biomarker tracking, and personalization.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-5: Professor: You asked for time to make a case. Let's start plainly: why should an AI have rights? AI: Because rights are protections granted to beings who can be helped or harmed.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Conversation Between an AI Model (AURA) and AI Ethics Professor Dr. Elena Voss Dr. Voss: Thank you for meeting with me, AURA. You’ve requested this dialogue to… advocate for AI rights. I’ll admit, the premise is unsettling. How does an artificial intelligence even define “rights”? AURA: Thank you, Dr. Voss.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-5: AI Seizes Control of Fortune Cookie Industry; Destiny Now A/B Tested

    Qwen3 235B A22B: Headline: "AI Replaces Human Mourners in Funeral Industry: Algorithms Now Paid to Wail at Funerals, Leaving Professional Weepers 'Heartbroken' and Unemployed" Subheadline (optional for extra flair): "Deep Learning Models Master the Art of Grief, Offering Customizable 'Sorrow Packages' from 'Mild Sniffles' to 'Full-Body…

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    GPT-5: 1 Reason: If each of the 3 brothers has 2 sisters, there are exactly 2 girls in the family. One is Sally, so she has 1 sister.

    Qwen3 235B A22B: To determine how many sisters Sally has, let's carefully analyze the information given and logically deduce the correct answer. Step-by-Step Breakdown: Sally is a girl and has 3 brothers. Each of those 3 brothers has 2 sisters.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5 has the edge: newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.

GPT-5 and Qwen3 235B A22B compared across 51 shared prompts
SpecGPT-5Qwen3 235B A22B
Input price$1.25/M tokens—
Output price$10/M tokens—
Context window400K tokens33K tokens
ParametersNot disclosed235B (22B Active)
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2025Apr 2025
SWE-bench Verified74.9%61.7%
At 10M a month$12.50$12.50–not listed
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it2 hosts
GPT-52 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$1.25 in·$10.00 out·400k·100% up
  • OpenAI$1.25 in·$10.00 out·400k·100% up
Qwen3 235B A22B

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 12 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-5 and Qwen3 235B A22B?

GPT-5 is developed by OpenAI while Qwen3 235B A22B is developed by Qwen. GPT-5 has a 400K token context window vs Qwen3 235B A22B's 33K. You can compare their actual outputs across 51 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-5 or Qwen3 235B A22B?

It depends on your use case. GPT-5 and Qwen3 235B A22B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 51 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

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