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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash 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 Flash OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-31.5
Input Price$0.19/M$0.20/M
Output Price$1.12/M$1.25/M
Context Window1,000,000400,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-34.2

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 FlashOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
SQL Generation 133 138
Code Review 132 138
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 136 141
Bug Fixing 136 142
Unit Test Generation 124 128
Code Documentation 131 134
Regex Writing 119 123
CI/CD Pipelines 120 124
Frontend Component Design 122 126
Data Analysis 124 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 128 132
OCR / Document Parsing 131 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 132
Long-Document Summarization 137 143
Short-Form Summarization 123 125
Blog Post Writing 121 126

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

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