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OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

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

OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendor~openaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-26.9
Input Price$0.75/M$0.15/M
Output Price$4.50/M$1.00/M
Context Window400,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
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Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Mini LatestQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 133 134
Code Review 132 132
Code Completion 130 129
Code Refactoring 136 132
Bug Fixing 136 136
Unit Test Generation 124 124
Code Documentation 130 129
Regex Writing 119 122
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 122 125
Data Analysis 124 128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 129
ETL Scripting 128 126
JSON Extraction 130 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 134
Short-Form Summarization 123 125
Blog Post Writing 121 122

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

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