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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-06.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score88.685.4
Input Price$2.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$6.00/M$12.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,050,000
Max Output131,072128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index77.477.2
ai_index_agentic82.372.5
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
SQL Generation 171 169
Code Review 165 164
Code Completion 119 118
Code Refactoring 163 162
Bug Fixing 180 177
Unit Test Generation 153 153
Code Documentation 141 140
Regex Writing 135 133
CI/CD Pipelines 144 143
Frontend Component Design 146 145
Data Analysis 170 168
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 152
ETL Scripting 153 152
JSON Extraction 139 138
Bulk Data Labeling 125 123
OCR / Document Parsing 146 146
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 146
Long-Document Summarization 158 157
Short-Form Summarization 122 121
Blog Post Writing 139 138

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

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