GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3 235B A22B

Choose GPT-5.6 Sol if you want hard coding and research tasks for teams in the OpenAI ecosystem. Choose Qwen3 235B A22B if you want self-hosted or ultra-cheap open-weight agents.

In our editorial scoring, GPT-5.6 Sol leads in 3 of five dimensions (output quality, agentic ability and reliability), while Qwen3 235B A22B leads in 2. On price, GPT-5.6 Sol runs about $13 per 1M tokens (blended) and is proprietary; Qwen3 235B A22B is about $0.23 and open-weight.

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