Openai vs Qwen

Battle of the providers: Comparing the frontier models from both Openai and Qwen to find the best cost-to-performance leaders.

Cross-Provider Frontier Leaders

Frontier Model	LMArena Elo	API Cost (1M)	Throughput
gpt-5.2-chat-latest-20260210	1479	$0.00000175	50
qwen3.5-397b-a17b	1450	$3.9e-7	50
qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507	1422	$7.1e-8	2
qwen3.5-flash	1402	$6.5e-8	86
gpt-oss-120b	1354	$3.9e-8	52
gpt-oss-20b	1318	$3e-8	3

*These models represent the Pareto Frontier (optimal cost-to-performance).*