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

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

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Vendorqwenopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score97.992.7
Input Price$2.00/M$1.00/M
Output Price$6.00/M$6.00/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_index95.893.3
ai_index_agentic96.482.8
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
SQL Generation 175 173
Code Review 170 169
Code Completion 120 120
Code Refactoring 167 165
Bug Fixing 186 183
Unit Test Generation 157 155
Code Documentation 143 143
Regex Writing 137 136
CI/CD Pipelines 147 146
Frontend Component Design 149 148
Data Analysis 176 173
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 154
ETL Scripting 157 155
JSON Extraction 140 140
Bulk Data Labeling 125 125
OCR / Document Parsing 147 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 147
Long-Document Summarization 162 161
Short-Form Summarization 124 123
Blog Post Writing 142 141

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

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