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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-18.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score97.999.3
Input Price$2.00/M$2.50/M
Output Price$6.00/M$15.00/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_index95.8100.0
ai_index_agentic96.495.3
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
SQL Generation 175 174
Code Review 170 171
Code Completion 120 118
Code Refactoring 167 167
Bug Fixing 186 187
Unit Test Generation 157 157
Code Documentation 143 142
Regex Writing 137 136
CI/CD Pipelines 147 147
Frontend Component Design 149 149
Data Analysis 176 177
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 154
ETL Scripting 157 157
JSON Extraction 140 138
Bulk Data Labeling 125 122
OCR / Document Parsing 147 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 147
Long-Document Summarization 162 162
Short-Form Summarization 124 122
Blog Post Writing 142 142

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

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