The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·OpenAI vs Alibaba

OpenAI: GPT-5.2 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

OpenAI: GPT-5.2 profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 — OpenAI
Quality
#16 of 62
80based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#134 of 317
55.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#319 of 370
$4.81
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.75 · Out $14.00
Cache hit price
#160 of 238
$0.17
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#129 of 375
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#5 of 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#188 of 317
43.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#252 of 370
$1.88
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.25 · Out $3.75
Cache hit price
#191 of 238
$0.25
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#103 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, OpenAI: GPT-5.2 scores 80 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 13-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 3 published evaluations, with OpenAI: GPT-5.2 ahead on 1 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $4.81 per 1M tokens for OpenAI: GPT-5.2 and $1.88 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is about 2.6× cheaper.

Throughput is 55 tokens per second for OpenAI: GPT-5.2 and 43 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 3.5s and 1.2s. OpenAI: GPT-5.2 accepts 400k tokens of context against 1.00M.

OpenAI: GPT-5.2 is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 3 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricOpenAI: GPT-5.2Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 80 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $4.81 $1.88
Output tok/s 55 43
Context window 400k 1.00M
Providers 2 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5.2Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 80 93
Coding Index 76 —
Mathematics Index 96 95
Reasoning Index 77 —
Agentic Index 76 88
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = OpenAI: GPT-5.2 · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 92
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 95
SWE-bench Verified74 / 77

Right-hand figures read OpenAI: GPT-5.2 / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. OpenAI: GPT-5.2 leads on 1 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 2.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5.2Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Text Arena 1,412 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,435 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5.2Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $1.75 $1.25
Output $/1M $14.00 $3.75
Blended $/1M $4.81 $1.88
Cache read $/1M $0.175 $0.250
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5.2Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 400k 1.00M
Max output tokens 128k 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5.2Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 55 43
Time to first token 3.5s 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

3 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider OpenAI: GPT-5.2 blendedOpenAI: GPT-5.2 tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
OpenAI · first party $2.41 45 — —
Azure · first party $4.81 40 — —
Alibaba · first party — — $1.88 50

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →