Is Qwen 3 Max Thinking or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct cheaper?

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($2.00 vs $6.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen 3 Max Thinking or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct?

Qwen 3 Max Thinking has the larger context window (256K tokens).

Qwen 3 Max Thinking vs GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen 3 Max Thinking offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen 3 Max Thinking or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen 3 Max Thinking	GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Provider	Vercel AI Gateway	Vercel AI Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$1.20	$1.50
Output / 1M tokens	$6.00	$2.00
Context window	256K	8K
Parameters	—	20B
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Jan 2026	Sep 2023

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