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OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Vendoropenaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score37.728.9
Input Price$0.75/M$0.31/M
Output Price$4.50/M$1.25/M
Context Window400,000262,144
Max Output128,00016,384
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index39.731.9

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniQwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
SQL Generation 138 134
Code Review 139 132
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 142 132
Bug Fixing 143 136
Unit Test Generation 128 125
Code Documentation 134 129
CI/CD Pipelines 124 121
Frontend Component Design 126 125
Data Analysis 130 128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 133 127
JSON Extraction 130 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 129
Long-Document Summarization 143 134
Short-Form Summarization 124 125
Blog Post Writing 126 122

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

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