GPT OSS 20B vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare GPT OSS 20B by OpenAI against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, in 79 community votes, qwen: qwen3 30b a3b instruct 2507 wins 71% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 131K vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins 57% of votes
Image Generation: Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins 100% of votes
Reasoning: Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins 75% of votes
Conversation: Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Winner
GPT OSS 20BRunner-up
Pick Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507. In 79 blind votes, Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins 71% of the time. That's not luck.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 particularly excels in Image Generation, Conversation, Reasoning. GPT OSS 20B is 8.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT OSS 20B
Input
$0.02
10× cheaper
Output
$0.10
8.0× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
Output
$0.80
GPT OSS 20B is cheaper on both — 10× input, 8.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
52%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 10.2x more emoji
GPT OSS 20B
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
54%Vocabulary55%
17wSentence Length18w
0.26Hedging0.52
5.9Bold6.7
3.3Lists4.3
0.10Emoji1.04
0.75Headings0.92
0.32Transitions0.11
Based on 21 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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