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OpenAI: GPT-5.4 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Vendoropenaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score80.953.4
Input Price$2.50/M$0.55/M
Output Price$15.00/M$3.50/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index64.330.4
eqbench82.471.3

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.4Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
SQL Generation 145 139
Code Review 154 140
Code Completion 120 131
Code Refactoring 157 141
Bug Fixing 158 144
Unit Test Generation 137 129
Code Documentation 140 134
Regex Writing 126 125
CI/CD Pipelines 133 125
Frontend Component Design 133 128
Data Analysis 138 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 139 133
ETL Scripting 145 133
JSON Extraction 120 131
Bulk Data Labeling 116 128
OCR / Document Parsing 136 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 136 131
Long-Document Summarization 157 143
Short-Form Summarization 117 126
Blog Post Writing 133 127

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

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