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OpenAI: o3 vs QwQ-32B ·OpenAI vs Alibaba

OpenAI: o3 vs QwQ-32B — head-to-head comparison

OpenAI: o3 profile QwQ-32B profile All comparisons
OpenAI: o3 — OpenAI
Quality
#26 of 65
74based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#79 of 339
79.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#354 of 439
$3.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.00 · Out $8.00
Cache hit price
#300 of 322
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−75%)
Context
#324 of 473
200k
tokens (~300 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: o3 scores 74 and QwQ-32B scores 69 — a 5-point lead for OpenAI: o3. They share 2 published evaluations, with OpenAI: o3 ahead on 2 and QwQ-32B ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for OpenAI: o3 only, at $3.50 per 1M tokens blended.

OpenAI: o3 is proprietary; QwQ-32B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 1 tracked host serve one or both.

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

At a glance
MetricOpenAI: o3QwQ-32B
Known Good Index 74 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 69 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $3.50 —
Output tok/s 79 —
Context window 200k —
Providers 1 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: o3QwQ-32B
Known Good Index 74 69
Mathematics Index 92 —
Reasoning Index 63 75
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = OpenAI: o3 · marker = QwQ-32B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond82 / 65
Mock AIME 2024–2584 / 59

Right-hand figures read OpenAI: o3 / QwQ-32B. OpenAI: o3 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: o3QwQ-32B
Text Arena — 1,329
Text Arena (style controlled) — 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: o3QwQ-32B
Input $/1M $2.00 —
Output $/1M $8.00 —
Blended $/1M $3.50 —
Cache read $/1M $0.500 —
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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: o3QwQ-32B
Context window 200k —
Max output tokens 100k —
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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: o3QwQ-32B
Output tokens/s 79 —
Time to first token 3.9s —
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Providers

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

1 host
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider OpenAI: o3 blendedOpenAI: o3 tok/s QwQ-32B blendedQwQ-32B tok/s
OpenAI · first party $3.50 107 — —

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

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →