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Updated Sep 2026

GPT OSS 120BvsQwen3.8 Max (0902)

GPT OSS 120B is cheaper than Qwen3.8 Max (0902) at $0.18/M vs $2/M input tokens.

GPT OSS 120B and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) compared across 10 shared prompts
SpecGPT OSS 120BQwen3.8 Max (0902)
Input price$0.18/M tokens$2/M tokens
Output price$0.8/M tokens$6/M tokens
Context window131K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2025Sep 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 5 of the 10 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

GPT OSS 120B373 words
Recipe: “Golden Crunchy Chick‑a‑Boom Bites” A quick, crunchy‑savory snack that’s ready in under 20 minutes – perfect for a snack, side, or salad topper. Ingredients (7 pantry staples) # Ingredient Quantity 1 Canned chickpeas (drained & rinsed) 1 ½ cups (≈1 ½ cans) 2 Olive oil (or any neutral oil) 2 Tbsp 3 Garlic powder…
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)230 words
🍯 Midnight Crispy Chickpea Bowl A sweet-savory, crispy rice bowl that comes together faster than delivery. Ingredients (7) # Ingredient Amount 1 Canned chickpeas (drained & patted dry) 1 can (15 oz) 2 Soy sauce 3 tbsp 3 Honey 2 tbsp 4 Garlic (minced) 3 cloves 5 Vegetable oil 2 tbsp 6 Instant or leftover cooked rice 2…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

GPT OSS 120B823 words
1‑Month “Kick‑Start” Plan for Health & Longevity Focus areas: Diet, Exercise, Sleep (stress‑management tips woven in) How to Use This Plan What When How Read the weekly overview first. Day 1 of each week Set a tiny, measurable goal (e.g., “walk 10 min after dinner”).
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)536 words
The 30-Day Foundation Plan Core principle: Don't overhaul your life. Layer small wins that compound. 🏃 Area 1: Movement The goal isn't fitness. It's making your body a place you want to live in. Week 1 — Build the trigger Walk 15 minutes daily (same time each day to build the habit) No gym. No gear.
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

GPT OSS 120B2,510 words
Below is a system‑level failure‑mode / race‑condition / scaling‑bottleneck map for the architecture you described, followed by a concrete mitigation (or redesign) for each item together with the main trade‑offs to consider.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)477 words
Architecture Failure Analysis: Real-Time Collaborative Editor Critical Issues (Data Loss / Correctness) Last-Write-Wins with Client Clocks — Fundamental Data Loss Problem: Client clocks are unreliable. They drift, can be manually set, and differ across timezones.
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

GPT OSS 120B1,405 words
Below is a quick “triage” of the three statements that, if left unchanged, will most likely raise eyebrows (or a “no‑thanks”) from investors, VCs, and even a skeptical engineering board.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)582 words
The 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch The TAM Claim: "$180B" (Slide 4) Why it's weak: This is a textbook case of TAM inflation that immediately undermines credibility with any experienced investor.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

GPT OSS 120B821 words
1. The Software Engineer (API‑first, Distributed‑Systems Mindset) Think of a large language model (LLM) as a stateless microservice that receives a stream of tokens (the smallest lexical units) and returns a probability distribution over the next token.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)1,046 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM as a lossy compression function trained on a massive corpus. During training, you're essentially building a statistical model of "given this sequence of tokens, what's the probability distribution over the next token?"
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Our Verdict
GPT OSS 120B
GPT OSS 120B
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

GPT OSS 120B costs 7.5x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

GPT OSS 120B
Input
$0.18
11× cheaper
Output
$0.80
7.5× cheaper
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00

GPT OSS 120B is cheaper on both: 11× input, 7.5× output.

Where to run it

21 hosts, cheapest first

GPT OSS 120B20 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
AAkashMLbf16$0.03 in·$0.17 out·131k·100% upCCoreWeavefp4$0.03 in·$0.17 out·131k·99.8% upDDekaLLMbf16$0.03 in·$0.18 out·131k·99.8% upDDeepInfrabf16$0.04 in·$0.17 out·131k·98.7% upCCrusoebf16$0.05 in·$0.25 out·131k·98.8% upMMancerfp8$0.05 in·$0.30 out·131k·97.7% up
14 more hostsFewer hosts
DDigitalOcean$0.06 in·$0.42 out·128k·100% upGoogle Vertex AI$0.09 in·$0.36 out·131k·93.2% upBBasetenfp4$0.10 in·$0.50 out·128k·100% upPParasailfp4$0.10 in·$0.75 out·131k·97.9% upAmazon Bedrock$0.15 in·$0.60 out·131k·87.7% upGroq$0.15 in·$0.60 out·131k·100% upSSiliconFlowfp8$0.15 in·$0.60 out·131k·53% upTTogether$0.15 in·$0.60 out·131k·92% upCCerebrasfp16$0.35 in·$0.75 out·131k·100% upNNovitafp4degraded$0.05 in·$0.25 out·131k·61.2% upSSambaNovadegraded$0.14 in·$0.95 out·131k·97.1% upNNebiusfp4degraded$0.15 in·$0.60 out·131k·97.9% upPPhaladegraded$0.15 in·$0.60 out·131k·63.6% upMMaradegraded$0.15 in·$0.75 out·131k·83.8% up
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 23 Sep 2026.

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GPT OSS 120B is developed by OpenAI while Qwen3.8 Max (0902) is developed by Qwen. GPT OSS 120B has a 131K token context window vs Qwen3.8 Max (0902)'s 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 10 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. GPT OSS 120B and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 10 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

GPT OSS 120B costs $0.18/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $2/M input tokens. GPT OSS 120B is $1.82/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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