OpenAI GPT Oss 120B vs Qwen Qwen3 Omni 30B A3b Thinking

OpenAI GPT Oss 120B vs Qwen Qwen3 Omni 30B A3b Thinking: OpenAI GPT Oss 120B is cheaper by 28% on average. OpenAI GPT Oss 120B from OpenRouter (131,072-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Qwen Qwen3 Omni 30B A3b Thinking from Novita AI (65,536-token context, reasoning, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

3,000
0131,072
400
032,768
5,000
01,000,000
OpenRouter
$131/mo
Input $0.180/M · Output $0.800/M
Novita AI
$173/mo
Input $0.250/M · Output $0.970/M
At this workload, OpenAI GPT Oss 120B is 24% cheaper than Qwen Qwen3 Omni 30B A3b Thinking — a savings of $42.31/month ($508/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: openai-gpt-oss-120b
  provider: openrouter
fallback:
  model: qwen-qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-thinking
  provider: novita-ai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
OpenAI GPT Oss 120B Qwen Qwen3 Omni 30B A3b Thinking
Input price $0.180/M $0.250/M
Output price $0.800/M $0.970/M
Context window 131,072 65,536
Max output 32,768 16,384
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~28% cheaper than Qwen Qwen3 Omni 30B A3b Thinking
Larger context
131,072 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised