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Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.

Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-80.2
Input Price$0.03/M$2.00/M
Output Price$0.13/M$10.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,050,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-77.5

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.7 Flash costs $0.062 and GPT-5.6 Sol costs $4.50, so Qwen3.7 Flash is about 72.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,000,000 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,500 and 1,575 pages.

Only Qwen3.7 Flash offers video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.7 Flash scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), GPT-5.6 Sol on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick Qwen3.7 Flash if you need lower cost or video input; pick GPT-5.6 Sol if you need the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.7 FlashOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
SQL Generation 134 142
Code Review 132 146
Code Completion 132 119
Code Refactoring 136 148
Bug Fixing 136 150
Unit Test Generation 124 133
Code Documentation 132 136
Regex Writing 120 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 129
Frontend Component Design 122 131
Data Analysis 124 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 135
ETL Scripting 128 138
JSON Extraction 132 121
Bulk Data Labeling 130 118
OCR / Document Parsing 131 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 134
Long-Document Summarization 138 149
Short-Form Summarization 124 117
Blog Post Writing 122 130

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

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