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gpt-oss-20b (free) vs Qwen3.6 27B

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

Winner summary

Qwen3.6 27B wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Qwen3.6 27B
Hype vs Reality
gpt-oss-20b (free)
#33 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.6 27B
#36 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
gpt-oss-20b (free)
$0.00/M
Qwen3.6 27B
48.9 pts/$
$1.34/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
gpt-oss-20b (free)Qwen3.6 27B
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Qwen3.6 27B leads by +23.9
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
gpt-oss-20b (free)
3.1
Qwen3.6 27B
27.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Qwen3.6 27B leads by +33.0
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
gpt-oss-20b (free)
20.7
Qwen3.6 27B
53.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Qwen3.6 27B leads by +22.2
gpt-oss-20b (free)
14.9
Qwen3.6 27B
37.0
Full benchmark table
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20b (free)Qwen3.6 27B
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
3.127.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
20.753.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
14.937.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logogpt-oss-20b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.6 27B$0.28$2.40262K tokens (~131 books)$8.14