OpenAI o3 vs Qwen3 Coder Plus
Compare OpenAI o3 by OpenAI against Qwen3 Coder Plus by Qwen, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI o3
Qwen3 Coder PlusRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, OpenAI o3 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Coder Plus is 8.0x 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 Plus
Input
$1.00
10× cheaper
Output
$5.00
8.0× cheaper
Qwen3 Coder Plus is cheaper on both — 10× input, 8.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
46%
Qwen3 Coder Plus uses 14.8x more emoji
OpenAI o3
Qwen3 Coder Plus
68%Vocabulary65%
14wSentence Length54w
0.26Hedging0.74
0.7Bold3.6
3.0Lists6.0
0.00Emoji0.15
0.38Headings1.72
0.12Transitions0.16
Based on 16 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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