gpt-oss-safeguard-20b vs Qwen3 32B

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.086 in and $0.345 out and Qwen3 32B at $0.092 in and $0.322 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.086 in · $0.345 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Qwen3 32B

Qwen

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.092 in · $0.322 out / 1M

41K context · released April 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.086 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Qwen3 32B at $0.322 per million tokens.
Largest context: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b 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-oss-safeguard-20b

0.03¢

Qwen3 32B

0.03¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.07¢

Qwen3 32B

0.07¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3 32B

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.34¢

Qwen3 32B

0.35¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3 32B

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

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Qwen3 32B

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Qwen3 32B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.086

$0.092

Output / 1M tokens

$0.345

$0.322

Cached input / 1M

$0.043

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Specs

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Qwen3 32B

Provider

OpenAI

Qwen

Released

October 2025

April 2025

Context window

131K

41K

Max output

66K

16K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.03¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

Qwen3 32B

Qwen

0.03¢

for this task

53% input · 47% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.07¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 7,246 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, gpt-oss-safeguard-20b has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.07¢.

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-oss-safeguard-20b or Qwen3 32B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at 0.07¢; Qwen3 32B at 0.07¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run gpt-oss-safeguard-20b and Qwen3 32B 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 0.14¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.