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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus 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 Plus OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score43.231.5
Input Price$0.33/M$0.20/M
Output Price$1.95/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_index44.634.2

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
SQL Generation 139 138
Code Review 140 138
Code Refactoring 143 141
Bug Fixing 144 142
Unit Test Generation 129 128
Code Documentation 135 134
Regex Writing 124 123
CI/CD Pipelines 125 124
Frontend Component Design 127 126
Data Analysis 130 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 135
ETL Scripting 134 132
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 132
Long-Document Summarization 144 143
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 127 126

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

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