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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B vs OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.853.3
Input Price$0.32/M$1.75/M
Output Price$2.70/M$14.00/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output262,140128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.453.6

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BOpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
SQL Generation 135 138
Code Review 133 142
Code Completion 129 117
Code Refactoring 133 144
Bug Fixing 137 146
Unit Test Generation 125 130
Code Documentation 129 133
Regex Writing 122 122
CI/CD Pipelines 121 126
Frontend Component Design 126 128
Data Analysis 129 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 134
ETL Scripting 127 135
JSON Extraction 131 120
Bulk Data Labeling 129 117
OCR / Document Parsing 130 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 133
Long-Document Summarization 135 145
Short-Form Summarization 125 115
Blog Post Writing 123 126

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

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