GPT-5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Compare GPT-5 by OpenAI against Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen, in 5 community votes, qwen: qwen3.6 35b a3b wins 75% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 400K vs 262K, tested across 51 shared challenges.
Image Generation: Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BWinner
GPT-5Runner-up
Pick Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B. In 5 blind votes, Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B wins 75% of the time. That's not luck.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B particularly excels in Image Generation. Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 10x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-5
Input
$1.25
Output
$10.00
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
7.8× cheaper
Output
$0.97
10× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 7.8× input, 10× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
56%
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B uses 160.3x more emoji
GPT-5
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
65%Vocabulary59%
13wSentence Length15w
0.20Hedging0.31
0.2Bold4.9
4.6Lists2.7
0.00Emoji1.60
0.16Headings0.75
0.03Transitions0.05
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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