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Compare.

Models head to head — pick two or three. Same scoring, same week. Search to swap, add, or remove a model and the matchup recomputes. Hover or tap a stat to see how it shifted.

If quality matters most

GPT-5

Best raw competency at 58.5/100 and the lowest hallucination rate in the set. Pay the premium when accuracy compounds.

If cost matters most

Qwen 3 Max

91% cheaper than GPT-5, 10.5 points lower on competency. The value pick for high-volume workloads.

OpenAIGPT-5
Cloud · API
AlibabaQwen 3 Max
Open weights
CompetencyWeighted LLM score
58.5/100
flat W21 · rank 2
Best in class
48/100
flat W21 · rank 89 · −10.5 vs winner
Cost (input)Per 1M tokens
$14.00
~12× the cheapest in the row
$1.20
91% cheaper than GPT-5
Cheapest
Cost (output)Per 1M tokens
$42.00
~7× the cheapest in the row
$6.00
86% cheaper
Cheapest
SpeedTokens / second
76 tok/s
local inference, batch 1
Fastest cloud
0 tok/s
TTFT 0s
AccuracyHallucination rate
2.1%
lowest in category
Most accurate
no data
ContextMax input tokens
~256 pages
~256 pages context window
Largest
~256 pages
~256 pages context window
DeploymentWhere it runs
Cloud only
API key · quick setup
Cloud or local
Self-host on your GPUs
Most flexible
Data residencyCompliance
Vendor regions
verify region availability
Anywhere
runs inside your perimeter
Most flexible
LicenseWhat you can do
Proprietary
commercial OK · ToS applies
Open weights
commercial OK
Most permissive

Where each one wins.

Sub-competency scores by business task. Bars highlight the row leader in accent.

Customer service40% of category weight
GPT-5
96
Qwen 3 Max
81
Research & analysis22% weight
GPT-5
93
Qwen 3 Max
78
Summarization18% weight
GPT-5
92
Qwen 3 Max
77
Code review10% weight
GPT-5
89
Qwen 3 Max
74
Document understanding6% weight
GPT-5
86
Qwen 3 Max
71

GPT-5

✓ Best for
  • Strong at Customer Service for OpenAI.
  • Strong at Content Writing for OpenAI.
⚠ Watch out for
  • Validate fit for your specific workload before committing.
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Qwen 3 Max

✓ Best for
  • Strong at Customer Service for Alibaba.
  • Strong at Content Writing for Alibaba.
⚠ Watch out for
  • Validate fit for your specific workload before committing.
Open the full profile →

Cost vs quality, charted.

The selected models on the value frontier. Up-and-to-the-left wins.

$0.5$2$5$10$15+10090807060COST $/1M TOK →COMPETENCY /100 ↑GPT-5 · 58Qwen 3 Max · 48VALUE PICK
Filled = cloud / APIOutline = open weightsLower-left = best value

Still picking? We can shorten the list.

Ten questions, one answer. Cost estimates, quality bar, and the eval gates we'd add this sprint.