GPT OSS 20B vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Compare GPT OSS 20B by OpenAI against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by Qwen, in 4 community votes, gpt oss 20b wins 67% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 131K vs 66K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Reasoning: GPT OSS 20B wins 67% of votes
Our Verdict
GPT OSS 20BWinner
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructRunner-up
Pick GPT OSS 20B. In 4 blind votes, GPT OSS 20B wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
GPT OSS 20B particularly excels in Reasoning. GPT OSS 20B is 15x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT OSS 20B
Input
$0.02
7.5× cheaper
Output
$0.10
15× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
Output
$1.50
GPT OSS 20B is cheaper on both — 7.5× input, 15× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
59%
GPT OSS 20B uses 5.9x more transitions
GPT OSS 20B
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
54%Vocabulary52%
17wSentence Length16w
0.26Hedging0.20
5.9Bold5.8
3.3Lists3.7
0.10Emoji0.59
0.75Headings0.96
0.32Transitions0.05
Based on 21 + 20 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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