GPT-6 Solvs.Qwen 3.8 27B
Which one is better?
GPT-6 Sol is clearly ahead in the overall index, but costs 50 times (input) and 4 times (output) as much per token.
73
GPT-6 Sol
Rank 12 to 18
11
Qwen 3.8 27B
Rank 44 to 57
110
GPT-6 Sol
fairly fast
40
Qwen 3.8 27B
slow
$4
GPT-6 Sol
fairly expensive
$0.66
Qwen 3.8 27B
fairly cheap
GPT-6 Sol
- Subscription
At OpenAI from €23 a month (ChatGPT Plus). Through other providers from ≈ €6.36 a month (ElevenLabs Starter, with limited credits). 57 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$2 input, $10 output per 1M tokens, unchanged since Sep 24, 2026.
- Note
- There is a successor: GPT-6.1 Sol (rank 6 to 9, same price).
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-6 Sol ahead: 7Qwen 3.8 27B ahead: 0level: 1too little data: 2of 10 areas
AreaGPT-6 SolQwen 3.8 27B0 to 100, higher is betterResult
Areas in the overall index
CodingGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 84Qwen 3.8 27B: 13
ReasoningGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 82Qwen 3.8 27B: 6
MathematicsGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 88Qwen 3.8 27B: 8
KnowledgeGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 73Qwen 3.8 27B: 5
AgentsGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 65Qwen 3.8 27B: 21
Generalonly GPT-6 Sol has a scoreGPT-6 Sol: 80Qwen 3.8 27B: not enough data
MultimodalGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 62Qwen 3.8 27B: 13
Specialist fields
FinancelevelGPT-6 Sol: 47Qwen 3.8 27B: 34
Legaltoo little dataGPT-6 Sol: 52Qwen 3.8 27B: 23
HealthGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 53Qwen 3.8 27B: 3
Show 3 more areas that do not count toward the overall index
AreaGPT-6 SolQwen 3.8 27B0 to 100, higher is betterResult
CybersecurityGPT-6 Sol aheadGPT-6 Sol: 91Qwen 3.8 27B: 19
Searchonly GPT-6 Sol has a scoreGPT-6 Sol: 25Qwen 3.8 27B: not enough data
Productivityonly GPT-6 Sol has a scoreGPT-6 Sol: 30Qwen 3.8 27B: not enough data
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-6 Sol
Reasoning (requested): high
Current attempt
- Run date
- Oct 1, 2026
- API provider
- openrouter
- Requested API model
- openai/gpt-6-sol
- API model reported in response
- openai/gpt-6-sol
- Reasoning setting
- high
- Pinned endpoint
- OpenAI | openai/gpt-6-sol-20260922
- 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
- 80.5 s
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
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-6 Sol
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-6 Sol | Qwen 3.8 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | ||
| Overall index0 to 100, higher is better | 73 | 11 |
| Rank | Rank 12 to 18 of 95 | Rank 44 to 57 of 95 |
| Price per 1M tokens | ||
| Inputwhat you send | $2above 272,000 tokens: $4 | $0.04 |
| Outputwhat the model writes | $10above 272,000 tokens: $15 | $2.50 |
| Speed | ||
| Tokens per second | 110 | 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 | Apr 20, 2026 | n/a |
| Released | Sep 22, 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-6 SolB: Qwen 3.8 27B
Code MigrationOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 57.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 14.2%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 16.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0.0%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
CyberBench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 78%Qwen 3.8 27B: 67.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMBOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 71.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 59.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 49.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 48.6%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
GDPval-AAOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 1,201.59 eloQwen 3.8 27B: 1,370.88 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
IOIOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 82.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 39.1%Vals AIAs of 10/24/2026
Legal Research BenchOverall · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 28.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 36.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
MedCodeOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 47.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 28.7%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
MedScribeOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 82%Qwen 3.8 27B: 83.8%Vals AIAs of 10/13/2026
Show 54 more benchmarks
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 80.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 73.8%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
ProgramBenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
ProofBench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 83%Qwen 3.8 27B: 16%Vals AIAs of 10/24/2026
Tax Agent BenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 15%Qwen 3.8 27B: 30.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 83.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 58.4%Vals AIAs of 10/01/2026
Terminal-Bench-ScienceOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 30%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/25/2026
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 87.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 64.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Code MigrationCLI · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 52.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 2.2%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 24.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0.0%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
CyberBench v1.1Patch · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 89.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 83.9%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMBComps · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 73.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 53.3%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Adjustments · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 43.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 47.3%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
GDPval-AAOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 1,352.1 eloQwen 3.8 27B: 1,389.29 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
IOIIOI 2024 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 100%Qwen 3.8 27B: 31.8%Vals AIAs of 10/24/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 39.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 45.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 80.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 74.2%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
ProgramBenchAlmost Resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 32.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 1%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 6.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 6.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.1Easy · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 100%Qwen 3.8 27B: 50%Vals AIAs of 10/01/2026
Terminal-Bench-ScienceEarth Sciences · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 25%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/25/2026
Code MigrationCOBOL · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 70%Qwen 3.8 27B: 50%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 4.0%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0.3%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
CyberBench v1.1PoC · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 66.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 51.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMBDataroom · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 83.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 79.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent (v2)All-Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 36%Qwen 3.8 27B: 36.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
GDPval-AAOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 1,254.77 eloQwen 3.8 27B: 1,082.47 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
IOIIOI 2025 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 79.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 48.5%Vals AIAs of 10/24/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 80.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 88.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 70.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 69.9%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
ProgramBenchFully Resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 50.7%Qwen 3.8 27B: 48.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.1Hard · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 78.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 43.3%Vals AIAs of 10/01/2026
Terminal-Bench-ScienceEngineering Sciences · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 22.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/25/2026
Code MigrationCode Quality · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 4.375 / 5Qwen 3.8 27B: 4.197 / 5Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 28.0%Qwen 3.8 27B: 5.4%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
EMBDCF · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 63.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 50%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Comparables · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 40.8%Qwen 3.8 27B: 38.9%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
GDPval-AAOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 1,467.11 eloQwen 3.8 27B: 1,427.26 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
IOIIOI 2026 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 68.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 36.8%Vals AIAs of 10/24/2026
Legal Research BenchBusiness & Commercial · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 27.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 41.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterGPT-6 Sol: 82.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 76.3%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
ProgramBenchRaw Pass Rate · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 81.9%Qwen 3.8 27B: 11.2%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Tax Agent BenchCurrent & Temporal Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 23.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 43.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.1Medium · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 84.2%Qwen 3.8 27B: 67.3%Vals AIAs of 10/01/2026
Terminal-Bench-ScienceLife Sciences · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 42.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/25/2026
EMBLBO · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 59.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 53.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Disclosure Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 55.6%Qwen 3.8 27B: 60.3%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Legal Research BenchBusiness & Commercial · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 80.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 86.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchCurrent & Temporal Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 56.1%Qwen 3.8 27B: 58.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench-ScienceMathematical Sciences · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 29.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/25/2026
EMBM&A · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 83%Qwen 3.8 27B: 64.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Earnings Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 72.4%Qwen 3.8 27B: 70.9%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Legal Research BenchCivil Litigation · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 18.5%Qwen 3.8 27B: 25.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchFact-Pattern Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalGPT-6 Sol: 16.3%Qwen 3.8 27B: 34.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026