Is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or gpt-oss-20b cheaper?

gpt-oss-20b is cheaper on output tokens ($0.14 vs $0.27 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or gpt-oss-20b?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct has the larger context window (160K tokens).

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct vs gpt-oss-20b

gpt-oss-20b is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or gpt-oss-20b based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct	gpt-oss-20b
Provider	OpenRouter	OpenRouter
Input / 1M tokens	$0.07	$0.03
Output / 1M tokens	$0.27	$0.14
Context window	160K	131K
Parameters	—	21B
Open weights	Yes	Yes
Released	Apr 2025	Aug 2025

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct details →gpt-oss-20b details →

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