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ChatGPT vs Qwen

Compare ChatGPT vs Qwen: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.

Updated April 2026

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ChatGPT
OpenAI · GPT-5.2
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Qwen
Alibaba · Qwen 3 Max
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Pricing
Free tier
Limited GPT-5 mini, ~10 GPT-5 messages/day
Generous free tier in consumer app
Standard plan
Plus — $20/mo
Plus — API only
Top plan
Pro — $200/mo
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
$5.00
$0.40 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$1.20 Best
Capability
Context window
256K
256K Best
Max output tokens
16K Best
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
72%
72% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
84%
85% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
79% Best
74%
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1410 Best
1370
Features
Image input
Voice mode
Web search
File upload
Image generation
Code execution
Agent / tool use
Persistent memory
ChatGPT

Best all-rounder. Strongest agent tooling (custom GPTs, code interpreter, browse).

Qwen

Frontier-tier benchmarks at the lowest API cost in the high-quality tier. Open weights for Qwen 3-235B (Apache 2.0). Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations.

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