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OpenAI: GPT-5.4 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Vendoropenaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score89.654.9
Input Price$2.50/M$0.26/M
Output Price$15.00/M$2.08/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index84.853.3
ai_index_agentic67.834.2
ai_index_coding100.075.4
eqbench75.6-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.78 and GPT-5.4 costs $6.25, so Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is about 8.0 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT-5.4 reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.

Only Qwen3.5-122B-A10B offers video input.

On our blended benchmark score GPT-5.4 leads 89.6 to 54.9.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.4 scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

GPT-5.4 was released in March 2026 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B in February 2026.

Pick GPT-5.4 if you need long documents, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you need lower cost or 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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.4Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
SQL Generation 174 155
Code Review 175 148
Code Completion 120 129
Code Refactoring 173 145
Bug Fixing 187 156
Unit Test Generation 158 140
Code Documentation 146 133
Regex Writing 136 129
CI/CD Pipelines 149 132
Frontend Component Design 148 137
Data Analysis 173 152
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 157 142
ETL Scripting 161 139
JSON Extraction 137 143
Bulk Data Labeling 122 133
OCR / Document Parsing 148 139
Table Extraction from PDFs 148 139
Long-Document Summarization 167 143
Short-Form Summarization 122 128
Blog Post Writing 143 130

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

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