Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 93.0 |
| Input Price | $0.03/M | $1.00/M |
| Output Price | $0.13/M | $6.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 90.7 |
| ai_index_agentic | - | 78.2 |
| ai_index_coding | - | 100.0 |
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 Terra (batch) costs $2.50, so Qwen3.7 Flash is about 40.0 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 3 (Code Completion, Bulk Data Labeling, Short-Form Summarization), GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Pick Qwen3.7 Flash if you need lower cost or video input; pick GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) 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?
| Task | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 134 | 172 |
| Code Review | 132 | 168 |
| Code Completion | 132 | 120 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 165 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 181 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 155 |
| Code Documentation | 132 | 143 |
| Regex Writing | 120 | 136 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 145 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 147 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 171 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 134 | 154 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 155 |
| JSON Extraction | 132 | 139 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 130 | 125 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 147 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 147 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 138 | 160 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 122 | 140 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →