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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 2026-09-23.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score26.931.5
Input Price$0.15/M$0.20/M
Output Price$1.00/M$1.25/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output235,929128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index30.134.2

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
SQL Generation 134 138
Code Review 132 138
Code Completion 129 132
Code Refactoring 132 141
Bug Fixing 136 142
Unit Test Generation 124 128
Code Documentation 129 134
Regex Writing 122 123
CI/CD Pipelines 120 124
Frontend Component Design 125 126
Data Analysis 128 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 135
ETL Scripting 126 132
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 132
Long-Document Summarization 134 143
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 122 126

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

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