OpenAI o3 vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Compare OpenAI o3 by OpenAI against Qwen3 Coder Next by Qwen, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI o3
Qwen3 Coder NextRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, OpenAI o3 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Coder Next is 27x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
OpenAI o3
Input
$10.00
Output
$40.00
Qwen3 Coder Next
Input
$0.20
50× cheaper
Output
$1.50
27× cheaper
Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper on both — 50× input, 27× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
51%
Qwen3 Coder Next uses 85.8x more emoji
OpenAI o3
Qwen3 Coder Next
68%Vocabulary58%
14wSentence Length19w
0.26Hedging0.29
0.7Bold6.3
3.0Lists4.0
0.00Emoji0.86
0.38Headings0.92
0.12Transitions0.07
Based on 16 + 21 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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