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GPT-5 Nano vs Qwen3 8B

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-5 Nano · Qwen3 8B are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GPT-5 Nano
#114 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 8B
#58 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.2x better value than GPT-5 Nano
GPT-5 Nano
201.3 pts/$
$0.23/M
Qwen3 8B
251.1 pts/$
$0.23/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Nano$0.05$0.40400K tokens (~200 books)$1.38
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 8B$0.05$0.4041K tokens (~20 books)$1.38
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