Head to head
vs QW For light moderate heavy
Verdict · measured basis
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.0001 per solved task against
gpt-oss-20b at $0.0003 — ▼ 3.3x cheaper .
Over 200 tasks that is $0.04 a month.
On output token price alone gpt-oss-20b looks 2.2x cheaper. The ranking reverses once you divide by pass rate — the cheaper tokens do not win the task.
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Verified pricing, pass rate and cost per solved task for gpt-oss-20b and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct Figure gpt-oss-20b Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct Input $/Mtok $0.03 $0.07 Output $/Mtok $0.13 $0.28 Cached input $/Mtok $0.03 $0.07 Pass rate 94% 61% Cost per solved task $0.0003 measured $0.0001 measured Cost per month $0.05 $0.02
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Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct (measured, $0.0001 per solved task), gpt-oss-20b (measured, $0.0003 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct · MEASURED · $0.0001 per solved task $0.02 Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B … MEASURED gpt-oss-20b · MEASURED · $0.0003 per solved task $0.05 gpt-oss-20b MEASURED Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct (measured, $0.0001 per solved task), gpt-oss-20b (measured, $0.0003 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct · MEASURED · $0.0001 per solved task $0.02 gpt-oss-20b · MEASURED · $0.0003 per solved task $0.05 — Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct · MEASURED — gpt-oss-20b · MEASURED Solid measured · dashed modeled · dotted stale. The gap is the verdict.
Solvency Bench (solvency.dev) — first-party measurement · verified 2026-08-26 · prices from each provider's pricing page; measured rows ignore the tier · Methodology · All models at these settings