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OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

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

OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendor~openaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-43.2
Input Price$0.75/M$0.33/M
Output Price$4.50/M$1.95/M
Context Window400,0001,000,000
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-44.6

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Mini LatestQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 133 139
Code Review 132 140
Code Completion 130 132
Code Refactoring 136 143
Bug Fixing 136 144
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 130 135
Regex Writing 119 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 122 127
Data Analysis 124 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 128 134
JSON Extraction 130 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 137 144
Short-Form Summarization 123 125
Blog Post Writing 121 127

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

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