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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-05.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-88.4
Input Price$2.00/M$0.10/M
Output Price$6.00/M$0.60/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_index-84.5
ai_index_agentic-75.2
ai_index_coding-100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna
SQL Generation 133 171
Code Review 132 166
Code Completion 118 133
Code Refactoring 136 163
Bug Fixing 136 179
Unit Test Generation 124 154
Code Documentation 130 143
Regex Writing 118 136
CI/CD Pipelines 120 144
Frontend Component Design 122 146
Data Analysis 124 170
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 154
ETL Scripting 128 154
JSON Extraction 122 149
Bulk Data Labeling 119 135
OCR / Document Parsing 131 146
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 146
Long-Document Summarization 137 160
Short-Form Summarization 114 132
Blog Post Writing 121 140

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

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