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OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendoropenaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score37.735.5
Input Price$0.75/M$0.20/M
Output Price$4.50/M$1.56/M
Context Window400,000262,144
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index39.737.8

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniQwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 138 135
Code Review 139 133
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 142 133
Bug Fixing 143 137
Unit Test Generation 128 125
Code Documentation 134 129
Regex Writing 122 123
CI/CD Pipelines 124 121
Frontend Component Design 126 126
Data Analysis 130 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 133 127
JSON Extraction 130 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 130
Long-Document Summarization 143 135
Short-Form Summarization 124 125
Blog Post Writing 126 123

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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