# O3 Mini vs Qwen3 8 27B

As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen3 8 27B in 1 of 4 shared categories: General LLM.

O3 Mini: $1.9250000000000003 per 1M blended tokens.

Qwen3 8 27B: $0.73 per 1M blended tokens.

O3 Mini: closed weights.

Qwen3 8 27B: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen3 8 27B in General LLM at #7 against #72.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 8 27B leads O3 Mini in Reasoning at #67 against #133.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 8 27B leads O3 Mini in Long context at #75 against #145.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 8 27B leads O3 Mini in Abstraction (ARC) at #20 against #51.

As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini is a former state-of-the-art holder in Reasoning (since Feb 9, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 8 27B is tied for state of the art in Reasoning (since Oct 8, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).