GPT-3.5 Turbo vs Qwen3 235B A22B

GPT-3.5 Turbo at $0.575 in and $1.73 out and Qwen3 235B A22B at $0.523 in and $2.09 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

GPT-3.5 Turbo

OpenAI

0.43¢

for a client proposal

$0.575 in · $1.73 out / 1M

16K context · released May 2023

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Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen

0.43¢

for a client proposal

$0.523 in · $2.09 out / 1M

131K context · released April 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.85¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 235B A22B at $0.523 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: GPT-3.5 Turbo at $1.73 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3 235B A22B at 131K tokens — about 190 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

GPT-3.5 Turbo

0.2¢

Qwen3 235B A22B

0.21¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

GPT-3.5 Turbo

0.43¢

Qwen3 235B A22B

0.43¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

GPT-3.5 Turbo

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3 235B A22B

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

GPT-3.5 Turbo

needs 35K ctx

Qwen3 235B A22B

2¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

GPT-3.5 Turbo

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3 235B A22B

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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GPT-3.5 Turbo

Qwen3 235B A22B

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Pricing

GPT-3.5 Turbo

Qwen3 235B A22B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.575

$0.523

Output / 1M tokens

$1.73

$2.09

Specs

GPT-3.5 Turbo

Qwen3 235B A22B

Provider

OpenAI

Qwen

Released

May 2023

April 2025

Context window

16K

131K

Max output

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2021-09-30

2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

GPT-3.5 Turbo

OpenAI

0.2¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

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Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen

0.21¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.41¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,217 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3 235B A22B has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, GPT-3.5 Turbo is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.43¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Qwen3 235B A22B shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, GPT-3.5 Turbo or Qwen3 235B A22B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GPT-3.5 Turbo at 0.43¢; Qwen3 235B A22B at 0.43¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3 235B A22B — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run GPT-3.5 Turbo and Qwen3 235B A22B side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.85¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.85¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.