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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendoropenaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score62.326.9
Input Price$0.20/M$0.15/M
Output Price$1.20/M$1.00/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index61.630.1

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 141 134
Code Review 143 132
Code Completion 133 129
Code Refactoring 145 132
Bug Fixing 147 136
Unit Test Generation 131 124
Code Documentation 137 129
Regex Writing 125 122
CI/CD Pipelines 127 120
Frontend Component Design 129 125
Data Analysis 133 128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 129
ETL Scripting 136 126
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 129
Long-Document Summarization 147 134
Short-Form Summarization 126 125
Blog Post Writing 129 122

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

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