Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Max offers 138.2K more tokens in context window than GPT-OSS-20B. Qwen3-Max is $Infinity cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-OSS-20B is an open-weight large language model with 20 billion parameters from OpenAI's open-source model initiative. It targets deployments requiring a smaller, efficient model that can run on consumer or mid-tier hardware while maintaining strong reasoning and coding capabilities relative to its size.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
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GPT-OSS-20B
OpenAI
2025-08-05
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-OSS-20B
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-OSS-20B
Hugging Face
Qwen3-Max
GPT-OSS-20B
Qwen3-Max
GPT-OSS-20B
Qwen3-Max
OpenRouter