Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-11.
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 80.2 |
| Input Price | $0.15/M | $1.00/M |
| Output Price | $0.47/M | $5.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 128,000 |
| 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, Qwen3.8 Flash costs $0.27 and GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) costs $2.25, so Qwen3.8 Flash is about 8.4 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 Qwen3.8 Flash offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Flash scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Qwen3.8 Flash was released in August 2026 and GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) in July 2026.
Pick Qwen3.8 Flash if you need lower cost or video input; pick GPT-5.6 Sol (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: Qwen3.8 Flash | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 142 |
| Code Review | 132 | 146 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 120 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 148 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 150 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 133 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 126 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 129 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 131 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 135 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 138 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 122 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 120 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 149 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 118 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 130 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →