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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score97.988.2
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_index95.886.3
ai_index_agentic96.477.4
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)
SQL Generation 175 172
Code Review 170 167
Code Completion 120 133
Code Refactoring 167 164
Bug Fixing 186 180
Unit Test Generation 157 154
Regex Writing 137 137
CI/CD Pipelines 147 144
Frontend Component Design 149 146
Data Analysis 176 171
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 154
ETL Scripting 157 154
JSON Extraction 140 149
Bulk Data Labeling 125 135
OCR / Document Parsing 147 146
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 146
Long-Document Summarization 162 160
Short-Form Summarization 124 132
Blog Post Writing 142 140

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

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