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

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
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score26.980.9
Input Price$0.15/M$2.50/M
Output Price$1.00/M$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,050,000
Max Output235,929128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index30.164.3
eqbench-82.4

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BOpenAI: GPT-5.4
SQL Generation 134 145
Code Review 132 154
Code Completion 129 120
Code Refactoring 132 157
Bug Fixing 136 158
Unit Test Generation 124 137
Code Documentation 129 140
Regex Writing 122 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 133
Frontend Component Design 125 133
Data Analysis 128 138
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 139
ETL Scripting 126 145
JSON Extraction 131 120
Bulk Data Labeling 129 116
OCR / Document Parsing 129 136
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 136
Long-Document Summarization 134 157
Short-Form Summarization 125 117
Blog Post Writing 122 133

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

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