OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano | Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | openai | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 68.1 | 60.1 |
| Input Price | $0.20/M | $0.50/M |
| Output Price | $1.25/M | $3.60/M |
| Context Window | 400,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 235,929 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 63.1 | 55.6 |
| ai_index_agentic | 45.4 | 32.7 |
| ai_index_coding | 92.5 | 79.5 |
| eqbench | - | 58.0 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.4 Nano costs $0.51 and Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs $1.40, so GPT-5.4 Nano is about 2.7 times cheaper for the same work.
GPT-5.4 Nano reads up to 400,000 tokens at once, roughly 600 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Qwen3.5 397B A17B.
Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score GPT-5.4 Nano leads 68.1 to 60.1.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.4 Nano scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
GPT-5.4 Nano was released in March 2026 and Qwen3.5 397B A17B in February 2026.
Pick GPT-5.4 Nano if you need lower cost, long documents, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Qwen3.5 397B A17B if you need video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano | Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 163 | 159 |
| Code Review | 158 | 156 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 157 | 153 |
| Bug Fixing | 168 | 164 |
| Unit Test Generation | 148 | 145 |
| Code Documentation | 140 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 132 | 132 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 139 | 137 |
| Frontend Component Design | 141 | 140 |
| Data Analysis | 159 | 156 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 151 | 146 |
| ETL Scripting | 148 | 145 |
| JSON Extraction | 146 | 144 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 134 | 133 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 144 | 141 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 144 | 141 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 154 | 150 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 130 | 129 |
| Blog Post Writing | 135 | 134 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →