OpenAI o3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Compare OpenAI o3 by OpenAI against Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI o3
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, OpenAI o3 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 41x 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
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
62× cheaper
Output
$0.97
41× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 62× input, 41× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
52%
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B uses 160.3x more emoji
OpenAI o3
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
68%Vocabulary59%
14wSentence Length15w
0.26Hedging0.31
0.7Bold4.9
3.0Lists2.7
0.00Emoji1.60
0.38Headings0.75
0.12Transitions0.05
Based on 16 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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