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Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-22.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B OpenAI: GPT-5.4
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score51.890.4
Input Price$0.14/M$2.50/M
Output Price$1.00/M$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,050,000
Max Output262,144128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index52.284.8
ai_index_agentic35.367.8
ai_index_coding69.1100.0
eqbench-82.4

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BOpenAI: GPT-5.4
SQL Generation 154 174
Code Review 147 175
Code Completion 130 120
Code Refactoring 144 174
Bug Fixing 156 188
Unit Test Generation 140 159
Code Documentation 133 146
Regex Writing 129 136
CI/CD Pipelines 132 149
Frontend Component Design 137 149
Data Analysis 151 173
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 141 157
ETL Scripting 138 161
JSON Extraction 143 137
Bulk Data Labeling 133 122
OCR / Document Parsing 138 149
Table Extraction from PDFs 138 149
Long-Document Summarization 142 168
Short-Form Summarization 128 122
Blog Post Writing 130 144

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

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