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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.831.5
Input Price$0.32/M$0.20/M
Output Price$2.70/M$1.25/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output262,140128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.434.2

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
SQL Generation 135 138
Code Review 133 138
Code Completion 129 132
Code Refactoring 133 141
Bug Fixing 137 142
Unit Test Generation 125 128
Code Documentation 129 134
Regex Writing 122 123
CI/CD Pipelines 121 124
Frontend Component Design 126 126
Data Analysis 129 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 135
ETL Scripting 127 132
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 130 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 132
Long-Document Summarization 135 143
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 123 126

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

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