Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 64.8 | 68.1 |
| Input Price | $0.32/M | $0.20/M |
| Output Price | $1.28/M | $1.25/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 400,000 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 64.3 | 63.1 |
| ai_index_agentic | 34.3 | 45.4 |
| ai_index_coding | 92.2 | 92.5 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.4 Nano costs $0.51 and Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.64, so GPT-5.4 Nano is about 1.2 times cheaper for the same work.
Qwen3.7 Plus reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 600 pages for GPT-5.4 Nano.
On our blended benchmark score GPT-5.4 Nano leads 68.1 to 64.8.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.4 Nano on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Qwen3.7 Plus was released in June 2026 and GPT-5.4 Nano in March 2026.
Pick Qwen3.7 Plus if you need long documents; pick GPT-5.4 Nano if you need lower cost, benchmark performance or 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 Plus | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 162 | 163 |
| Code Review | 157 | 158 |
| Code Refactoring | 157 | 157 |
| Bug Fixing | 166 | 168 |
| Unit Test Generation | 147 | 148 |
| Code Documentation | 140 | 140 |
| Regex Writing | 131 | 132 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 138 | 139 |
| Frontend Component Design | 140 | 141 |
| Data Analysis | 156 | 159 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 151 | 151 |
| ETL Scripting | 147 | 148 |
| JSON Extraction | 146 | 146 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 134 | 134 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 144 | 144 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 144 | 144 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 153 | 154 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 129 | 130 |
| Blog Post Writing | 135 | 135 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →