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

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 Nano
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score67.970.5
Input Price$0.15/M$0.20/M
Output Price$1.00/M$1.25/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output262,144128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index54.463.1
ai_index_agentic96.378.5
ai_index_coding58.072.4

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
SQL Generation 161 164
Code Review 152 159
Code Completion 130 133
Code Refactoring 148 158
Bug Fixing 168 173
Unit Test Generation 143 148
Code Documentation 135 141
Regex Writing 133 133
CI/CD Pipelines 135 139
Frontend Component Design 140 141
Data Analysis 163 163
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 142 149
ETL Scripting 142 148
JSON Extraction 143 144
Bulk Data Labeling 133 134
OCR / Document Parsing 138 143
Table Extraction from PDFs 138 143
Long-Document Summarization 146 155
Short-Form Summarization 130 130
Blog Post Writing 133 137

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

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