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OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b vs QwQ-32B ·OpenAI vs Alibaba

OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b vs QwQ-32B — head-to-head comparison

OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile QwQ-32B profile All comparisons
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI
Quality
#44 of 65
62based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#10 of 339
167.8
Output tokens per second
Price
#19 of 439
$0.07
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.04 · Out $0.17
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#360 of 473
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
QwQ-32B — Alibaba
Quality
#29 of 65
69based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 62 and QwQ-32B scores 69 — a 7-point lead for QwQ-32B. They share 2 published evaluations, with OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 2 and QwQ-32B ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b only, at $0.07 per 1M tokens blended.

OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); QwQ-32B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 18 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricOpenAI: gpt-oss-120bQwQ-32B
Known Good Index 62 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 69 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.07
Output tok/s 168
Context window 131k
Providers 18 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricOpenAI: gpt-oss-120bQwQ-32B
Known Good Index 62 69
Reasoning Index 75
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · marker = QwQ-32B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond76 / 65
Mock AIME 2024–2589 / 59

Right-hand figures read OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b / QwQ-32B. OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b leads on 2 of 2, QwQ-32B on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricOpenAI: gpt-oss-120bQwQ-32B
Text Arena 1,366 1,329
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,352 1,336
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricOpenAI: gpt-oss-120bQwQ-32B
Input $/1M $0.04
Output $/1M $0.17
Blended $/1M $0.07
Cache read $/1M
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricOpenAI: gpt-oss-120bQwQ-32B
Context window 131k
Max output tokens 118k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricOpenAI: gpt-oss-120bQwQ-32B
Output tokens/s 168
Time to first token 0.7s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

18 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s QwQ-32B blendedQwQ-32B tok/s
Cerebras $0.45 418
Groq $0.26 320
Amazon Bedrock · first party $0.26 314
Nebius $0.26 245
SambaNova $0.34 217
BaseTen $0.20 216
Google · first party $0.16 151
Parasail $0.26 132
CoreWeave $0.07 113
Novita $0.10 109
DeepInfra $0.07 106
Mancer 2 $0.17 101
Phala $0.26 87
AkashML $0.07 50
Mara $0.30 43
Together $0.26 33
DigitalOcean $0.14 31
SiliconFlow $0.15 30

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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