Is Qwen3 VL Thinking or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct cheaper?

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($2.00 vs $4.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3 VL Thinking or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct?

Qwen3 VL Thinking has the larger context window (131K tokens).

Qwen3 VL Thinking vs GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3 VL Thinking offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3 VL 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	Qwen3 VL Thinking	GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Provider	Vercel AI Gateway	Vercel AI Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.40	$1.50
Output / 1M tokens	$4.00	$2.00
Context window	131K	8K
Parameters	—	20B
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Sep 2025	Sep 2023

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