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Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini

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

Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-37.7
Input Price$0.30/M$0.75/M
Output Price$1.80/M$4.50/M
Context Window1,000,000400,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-39.7

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
SQL Generation 133 138
Code Review 132 139
Code Completion 131 131
Code Refactoring 136 142
Bug Fixing 136 143
Unit Test Generation 124 128
Code Documentation 131 134
Regex Writing 119 122
CI/CD Pipelines 120 124
Frontend Component Design 122 126
Data Analysis 124 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 128 133
JSON Extraction 131 130
Bulk Data Labeling 129 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 137 143
Short-Form Summarization 123 124
Blog Post Writing 121 126

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

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