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GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) vs Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) wins 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · general · math.

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Hype vs Reality
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
#235 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
#228 by perf·#2 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
21.9 pts/$
$1.50/M
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
Chess Puzzles
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) leads by +17.9
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
0.0
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
17.9
Dtbench
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) leads by +53.3
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
14.2
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
67.5
GPQA diamond
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) leads by +76.9
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
2.9
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
79.8
Lmca
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) leads by +31.4
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
11.3
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
42.8
Mystery Game Puzzles
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) leads by +8.6
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
0.0
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
8.6
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) leads by +84.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
2.1
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
86.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
0.017.9
Dtbench
14.267.5
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
2.979.8
Lmca
11.342.8
Mystery Game Puzzles
0.08.6
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
2.186.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)$1.00$2.004K tokens (~2 books)$12.50
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)————