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o3 Mini 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 · o3 Mini · Qwen3 8B are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
o3 Mini
#149 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 8B
#56 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
18.0x better value than o3 Mini
o3 Mini
14.0 pts/$
$2.75/M
Qwen3 8B
251.1 pts/$
$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 logoo3 Mini$1.10$4.40200K tokens (~100 books)$19.25
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 8B$0.05$0.4041K tokens (~20 books)$1.38