gpt-oss-20b is 6.3× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Qwen3.6 35B A3B has the larger context window (262,144 vs 131,072 tokens, 2.0×).

gpt-oss-20b vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Live catalog fields. Best-in-row is highlighted.

gpt-oss-20bopen

OpenAI · openai__gpt-oss-20b

Qwen3.6 35B A3Bopen

Qwen · qwen__qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Identity

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen3.6-35b-a3b
ProviderOpenAIQwen
Slugopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Statuslivelive
Open weightsYesYes
License——
HuggingFaceopenai/gpt-oss-20bQwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Quality

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Quality index (0–100)——

Cost

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Input $ / 1M tokens$0.03$0.10
Cached input $ / 1M$0.03$0.03
Output $ / 1M tokens$0.13$0.90

Context

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Max context tokens131,072262,144
Max output tokens117,964235,929

Modalities

Fieldopenai__gpt-oss-20bqwen__qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Inputtexttext, image, video
Outputtexttext