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Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-18.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score67.981.0
Input Price$0.15/M$0.75/M
Output Price$1.00/M$4.50/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output262,144128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index54.466.0
ai_index_agentic96.397.1
ai_index_coding58.084.9

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
SQL Generation 161 169
Code Review 152 163
Code Completion 130 132
Code Refactoring 148 161
Bug Fixing 168 179
Unit Test Generation 143 151
Code Documentation 135 141
Regex Writing 133 134
CI/CD Pipelines 135 142
Frontend Component Design 140 144
Data Analysis 163 169
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 142 151
ETL Scripting 142 151
JSON Extraction 143 146
Bulk Data Labeling 133 133
OCR / Document Parsing 138 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 138 144
Long-Document Summarization 146 157
Short-Form Summarization 130 130
Blog Post Writing 133 138

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

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