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

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B OpenAI: GPT-5.4
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.880.9
Input Price$0.32/M$2.50/M
Output Price$2.70/M$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,050,000
Max Output262,140128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.464.3
eqbench-82.4

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BOpenAI: GPT-5.4
SQL Generation 135 145
Code Review 133 154
Code Completion 129 120
Code Refactoring 133 157
Bug Fixing 137 158
Unit Test Generation 125 137
Code Documentation 129 140
Regex Writing 122 126
CI/CD Pipelines 121 133
Frontend Component Design 126 133
Data Analysis 129 138
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 139
ETL Scripting 127 145
JSON Extraction 131 120
Bulk Data Labeling 129 116
OCR / Document Parsing 130 136
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 136
Long-Document Summarization 135 157
Short-Form Summarization 125 117
Blog Post Writing 123 133

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

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