GPT-5.4vs.Qwen 3.8 27B
Which one is better?
Level in the overall index: the gap is too small for a clear winner. Qwen 3.8 27B is cheaper: GPT-5.4 costs 62.5 times (input) and 6 times (output) as much per token.
16
GPT-5.4
Rank 43 to 50
11
Qwen 3.8 27B
Rank 44 to 57
101
GPT-5.4
fairly fast
40
Qwen 3.8 27B
slow
$5.63
GPT-5.4
expensive
$0.66
Qwen 3.8 27B
fairly cheap
GPT-5.4
- Subscription
No OpenAI subscription includes this model. Through other providers from ≈ €6.36 a month (ElevenLabs Starter, with limited credits). 38 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$2.50 input, $15 output per 1M tokens, unchanged since our price tracking began on Aug 14, 2026.
- Note
- There is a successor: GPT-5.5 (rank 19 to 35, $5 input, $30 output).
Qwen 3.8 27B
- Subscription
No Alibaba subscription includes this model. Through other providers from ≈ €1.06 a month (Command Code Go, with limited credits). 10 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$0.04 input, $2.50 output per 1M tokens according to the provider; the price index has listed it at $0.42 and $3 since Oct 27, 2026.
Overall index with data through Oct 29, 2026 · Prices from Oct 29, 2026 · Speed: measured by Artificial Analysis · Subscriptions as of Oct 24, 2026 · Subscription prices incl. VAT
Where is the difference?
Values from 0 to 100 per task area. We only name a winner when the gap is large enough and there are enough tests.
GPT-5.4 ahead: 2Qwen 3.8 27B ahead: 0level: 6too little data: 2of 10 areas
AreaGPT-5.4Qwen 3.8 27B0 to 100, higher is betterResult
Areas in the overall index
CodinglevelGPT-5.4: 15Qwen 3.8 27B: 13
ReasoninglevelGPT-5.4: 20Qwen 3.8 27B: 6
Mathematicsonly Qwen 3.8 27B has a scoreGPT-5.4: not enough dataQwen 3.8 27B: 8
KnowledgeGPT-5.4 aheadGPT-5.4: 18Qwen 3.8 27B: 5
AgentslevelGPT-5.4: 25Qwen 3.8 27B: 21
Generalonly GPT-5.4 has a scoreGPT-5.4: 18Qwen 3.8 27B: not enough data
MultimodalGPT-5.4 aheadGPT-5.4: 20Qwen 3.8 27B: 13
Specialist fields
FinancelevelGPT-5.4: 17Qwen 3.8 27B: 34
LegallevelGPT-5.4: 14Qwen 3.8 27B: 23
HealthlevelGPT-5.4: 8Qwen 3.8 27B: 3
Show 1 more areas that do not count toward the overall index
AreaGPT-5.4Qwen 3.8 27B0 to 100, higher is betterResult
Cybersecurityonly Qwen 3.8 27B has a scoreGPT-5.4: not enough dataQwen 3.8 27B: 19
See for yourself: same task, one attempt
The same prompt for both models. We show the latest attempt without fixes; it does not count toward the overall index.
Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
GPT-5.4
Reasoning (requested): high
Current attempt
- Run date
- Oct 1, 2026
- API provider
- openrouter
- Requested API model
- openai/gpt-5.4
- API model reported in response
- openai/gpt-5.4
- Reasoning setting
- high
- Pinned endpoint
- OpenAI | openai/gpt-5.4-20260305
- Temperature
- Provider default
- Token limit including reasoning
- 8,192 tokens
- Test protocol
- community-visual-tests-v1
- Technical checks
- Passed, not a quality rating
- Response time
- 116.8 s
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Earlier attempts (1)
- Sep 7, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: high
Qwen 3.8 27B
Not tested yet
Prompt and test conditions
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)SVG short test
SVG short test
One SVG task with the same fixed settings for every model, without hidden thinking.
Shared test round: 43b8c5c46830
GPT-5.4
Unavailable in this round
Qwen 3.8 27B
Test details
API reports 0 reasoning tokensAPI model: qwen/qwen3.8-27b865 output tokensAll data side by side
The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.
| Metric | GPT-5.4 | Qwen 3.8 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | ||
| Overall index0 to 100, higher is better | 16 | 11 |
| Rank | Rank 43 to 50 of 95 | Rank 44 to 57 of 95 |
| Price per 1M tokens | ||
| Inputwhat you send | $2.50above 272,000 tokens: $5 | $0.04 |
| Outputwhat the model writes | $15above 272,000 tokens: $22.50 | $2.50 |
| Speed | ||
| Tokens per second | 101 | 40 |
| Technical | ||
| Context windowhow much text the model reads at once | 1.05 M tokens≈ 1,580 A4 pages | 262,144 tokens≈ 390 A4 pages |
| Knowledge cutoff | Aug 31, 2025 | n/a |
| Released | Mar 5, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 |
| Availability | Active | Active |
| Open weights | no | yes |
Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis
Shared benchmarks
Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.
A: GPT-5.4B: Qwen 3.8 27B
Code MigrationOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 35%Qwen 3.8 27B: 14.2%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterGPT-5.4: 0.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0.3%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
GDPval-AAOverall · higher is betterGPT-5.4: 1,256.1 eloQwen 3.8 27B: 1,427.26 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
GPQA DiamondOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 91.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 88.9%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
LegalBenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 86%Qwen 3.8 27B: 82.4%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 84.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 84%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MedCodeOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 41.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 28.7%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
MedScribeOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 77.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 83.8%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
MMLU ProOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 87.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 84.3%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMMU ProOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 87.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 83.9%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
Show 51 more benchmarks
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterGPT-5.4: 70.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 69.9%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
MortgageTaxOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 68.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 64.9%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
ProgramBenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 0%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
SkillsBenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 51.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 38.1%Vals AIAs of 09/27/2026
SWE-bench VerifiedOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 78.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 86%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
TaxEval v2Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 74%Qwen 3.8 27B: 70.9%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 67.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 64.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Code MigrationCLI · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 23.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 2.2%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterGPT-5.4: 7.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0.0%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
GPQA DiamondFew-Shot CoT · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 91.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 88.9%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
LegalBenchConclusion Tasks · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 88.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 88.4%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBenchEasy · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 99.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 99.1%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProBiology · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 92.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 91.5%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterGPT-5.4: 78.0%Qwen 3.8 27B: 73.8%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
MortgageTaxNumerical Extraction · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 76%Qwen 3.8 27B: 69.4%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
ProgramBenchAlmost Resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 1%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
SkillsBenchNo Skills · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 48.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 19.1%Vals AIAs of 09/27/2026
SWE-bench Verified<15 min fix · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 88.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 90.2%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
TaxEval v2Correctness · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 64.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 60.1%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
Code MigrationCOBOL · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 68.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 50%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterGPT-5.4: 23.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 5.4%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
GPQA DiamondZero-Shot CoT · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 91.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 88.9%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
LegalBenchInterpretation Tasks · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 83.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 82%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBenchHard · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 67.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 65.7%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProBusiness · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 91.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 90.2%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterGPT-5.4: 78.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 76.3%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
MortgageTaxSemantic Extraction · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 60.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 60.5%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
ProgramBenchFully Resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 0%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
SkillsBenchWith Skills · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 51.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 38.1%Vals AIAs of 09/27/2026
SWE-bench Verified>4 hours · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 0%Qwen 3.8 27B: 66.7%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
TaxEval v2Stepwise Reasoning · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 83%Qwen 3.8 27B: 81.6%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
Code MigrationCode Quality · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 3.632 / 5Qwen 3.8 27B: 4.197 / 5Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
LegalBenchIssue Tasks · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 90.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 90.2%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBenchMedium · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 85.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 87.2%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProChemistry · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 91.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 91.8%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
ProgramBenchRaw Pass Rate · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 68.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 11.2%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
SWE-bench Verified1-4 hours · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 50%Qwen 3.8 27B: 69%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
LegalBenchRhetoric Tasks · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 82.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 81.4%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
MMLU ProComputer Science · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 89.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 88.3%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
SWE-bench Verified15 min - 1 hour · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 76.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 85.8%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
LegalBenchRule Tasks · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 84%Qwen 3.8 27B: 70.2%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
MMLU ProEconomics · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 89.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 88.2%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProEngineering · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 85.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 82.4%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProHealth · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 82.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 78.6%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProHistory · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 79.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 75.6%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProLaw · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 75.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 67.8%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProMath · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 94.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 94.8%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProOthers · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 86.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 76.8%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProPhilosophy · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 87%Qwen 3.8 27B: 78.6%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProPhysics · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 91.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 91.3%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026
MMLU ProPsychology · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-5.4: 87.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 84.8%Vals AIAs of 09/01/2026