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OpenAI: o3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B wins on more metrics (5 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricOpenAI: o3Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Intelligence Index38.437.2
Coding Index38.433.4
GPQA Diamond83%84%
Design Arena Elo1200
Speed (tokens/sec)8550
Latency3.9s204ms
Input price /M$2.00$0.195
Output price /M$8.00$1.56
Context window200K262K
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision