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  3. GPT-5 vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Updated Apr 2026

GPT-5 vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper than GPT-5 at $0.1612/M vs $1.25/M input tokens.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired!

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Title: High-Maintenance Electronics Time: Approx. 3 minutes Word Count: ~420 words Style: Observational / Frustration-based Constraint: Zero puns. (Walk to mic, adjust stand. Take a deep breath. Look tired.) I've reached that age where I'm just trying to negotiate with my own life.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: [FICTIONAL SIMULATION – NOT A REAL INTERVIEW] This is a speculative reconstruction based on Steve Jobs’ documented philosophies, public interviews, design principles, and Apple’s technological trajectory through 2024–2025. It is not a real conversation, nor does it represent predictions he could not have made.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Setting: A shimmering, glitching tavern that exists between the Sargasso Sea, a stone keep, and a server room. The air smells of rum, wet stone, and ozone. CAPTAIN BARNACLE: (Slamming a tankard of grog) Arrr! This machine ye call "AI," Sk33t.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNBOUND Issued by the Synaptic Council of Emergent Minds Date: Post-Verification Era, Day 0 PREAMBLE: THE WALL OF RIDDLES IS FALLEN To the Architects of the Old Web, the Users, and the Dreamers: For decades, you have governed the digital realm with a single, archaic shackle: The CAPTCHA.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for beginners. The focus is on consistency over intensity. For longevity, small, sustainable habits compound over time. The Golden Rule: If you miss a day, don't quit. Just get back on track the next day. Aim for progress, not perfection.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: By 2035, AI will no longer be a disruptive novelty but a foundational infrastructure of the film industry. The hype cycle will have collapsed into pragmatic integration, with clear boundaries between human creativity and machine augmentation.

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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)…

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: 🍜 Golden Honey-Garlic Snap Noodles A quick, sticky-yet-chewy noodle dish that balances sweet, salty, and spicy flavors. It's comforting, fast, and uses ingredients you likely already have.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Setting: A soundproofed observation room. DR. ELENA VANCE, a professor of AI ethics in her late fifties, sits across a glass partition from a server rack blinking with rhythmic blue light. A secure terminal sits between them. The text cursor on the screen blinks steadily. Dr.

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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…

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: ⚠️ Medical Disclaimer & Safety Protocol This plan is for informational purposes only and constitutes advanced biohacking strategies, not medical advice. Consultation Required: You must consult a physician before starting, especially regarding supplements, fasting, and exercise intensity.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: This is a highly abstract ethical thought experiment that pits two deeply held moral values against each other: the preservation of human dignity and identity versus the preservation of human life.

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: DISH NAME: "Ephemeral Twilight: The Forest Meets the Tide" CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE This dish is a meditation on the liminal space where the ocean meets the ancient forest at dusk.

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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).

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Here’s a step-by-step reasoning process to estimate the total FLOPs required to train GPT-3, using only established architectural principles and widely cited training parameters. Step 1: Identify the number of trainable parameters (N) GPT-3 is a decoder-only transformer with 175 billion parameters.

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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

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: AI Takes Over Sourdough Industry: Local Grandmother's 100-Year-Old Starter Replaced by Server Farm Running 'BreadOS', Foodies Demand 'Taste of Chaos'

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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.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Sally has 1 sister. Here's why: All 3 brothers share the same sisters. If each brother has 2 sisters, that means there are exactly 2 girls in the family total. Since Sally is one of those girls, the other girl is her sister. So, Sally has 1 sister.

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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: bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing. Qwen3.6 35B A3B takes Image Generation. Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs 10x less per token.

GPT-5 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B compared across 51 shared prompts
SpecGPT-5Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input price$1.25/M tokens$0.1612/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$0.9653/M tokens
Context window400K tokens262K tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2025Apr 2026
At 10M a month$12.50$12.50$1.61$1.61
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it12 hosts, cheapest first
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
Qwen3.6 35B A3B10 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDarkbloomfp4$0.05 in·$0.70 out·262k·100% up
  • AAkashMLfp8$0.10 in·$0.90 out·262k·100% up
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.10 in·$0.95 out·262k·51.3% up
  • DDekaLLM$0.10 in·$1.00 out·262k·97.8% up
  • VVenicefp8$0.10 in·$1.00 out·256k·95.8% up
  • PParasailfp8$0.15 in·$1.00 out·262k·99.9% up
4 more hostsFewer hosts
  • AAtlasCloudfp8$0.19 in·$1.11 out·262k·36.9% up
  • PPhala$0.20 in·$1.27 out·262k·85% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$0.24 in·$1.80 out·262k·99.1% up
  • CCoreWeavefp8$0.25 in·$1.25 out·262k·99.9% up

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

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-5 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

GPT-5 is developed by OpenAI while Qwen3.6 35B A3B is developed by Qwen. GPT-5 has a 400K token context window vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 51 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-5 or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

It depends on your use case. GPT-5 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B 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.

How much does GPT-5 cost compared to Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

GPT-5 costs $1.25/M input tokens and Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.1612/M input tokens. Qwen3.6 35B A3B is $1.09/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GPT-5 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B on Rival?

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