Compare · ModelsLive · 2 picked · head to head

gpt-oss-20b (free) vs Qwen3 Max

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · gpt-oss-20b (free) · Qwen3 Max are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
gpt-oss-20b (free)
#27 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 Max
#49 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
gpt-oss-20b (free)
$0.00/M
Qwen3 Max
24.9 pts/$
$2.34/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-oss-20b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 Max$0.78$3.90262K tokens (~131 books)$15.60