GPT-5.5 vs Qwen 3 Max

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	GPT-5.5 OpenAI's flagship frontier model, positioned as a new class of intelligence for coding and professional work.	Qwen 3 Max Alibaba's open-weights frontier model; very strong on Chinese + code.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	open source
Pricing	usage	free
Strengths	+ OpenAI's recommended model for complex reasoning and coding + 1M-token context window with up to 128K output tokens + Generally available via the OpenAI API with listed pricing of $5 input / $30 output per million tokens	+ Open weights + Best-in-class for Chinese-language workloads + Strong on coding benchmarks
Tradeoffs	− Most expensive tier in OpenAI's lineup; GPT-5.4 is positioned as the more affordable option for similar work − API-only commercial model; no open weights	− Inference infra is the team's problem
Used in stacks	0	0