AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — OpenAI
o3 is a reasoning model from OpenAI, released on April 16, 2025 (snapshot o3-2025-04-16). It takes text and image input and returns text.
Model B — Alibaba
Qwen3-235B-A22B is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model in Alibaba’s Qwen3 family, released on April 29, 2025 under Apache 2.0, with 235B total and 22B activated parameters.
| Property | OpenAI o3 | Qwen3-235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Apr 16, 2025 | Apr 29, 2025 |
| Developer | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Type | reasoning | llm |
| License | proprietary | open-weight |
| Context window | 200,000 | 131,072 |
| Parameters | — | 235B total, 22B active (mixture of experts, 128 experts) |
| Developer status | Deprecated | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $2.00 | — |
| Output $/M tokens | $8.00 | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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