gpt-oss-20b is 6.5× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Qwen-Plus has the larger context window (1,000,000 vs 131,072 tokens, 7.6×). gpt-oss-20b is open-weights; the other is not.

gpt-oss-20b vs Qwen-Plus

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gpt-oss-20bopen

OpenAI · openai__gpt-oss-20b

Qwen-Plus

Qwen · qwen__qwen-plus

Identity

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen-plus
ProviderOpenAIQwen
Slugopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen-plus
Statuslivelive
Open weightsYesNo
License——
HuggingFaceopenai/gpt-oss-20b—

Quality

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen-plus
Quality index (0–100)——

Cost

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen-plus
Input $ / 1M tokens$0.03$0.26
Cached input $ / 1M$0.03$0.05
Output $ / 1M tokens$0.13$0.78

Context

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen-plus
Max context tokens131,0721,000,000
Max output tokens117,96432,768

Modalities

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen-plus
Inputtexttext
Outputtexttext