Head to head
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Openai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $2.00 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M tokens | $6.00 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Max output | 131K | 128K |
| WM Score | 89 | 82 |
| Benchmark quality | 91.7 | 80.9 |
| Hosts serving it | 1 | 3 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 38 | 54 |
| Latency (ms) | 1512 | 560 |
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Which should you pick?
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max costs less per million input tokens — about 1.3× cheaper than OpenAI: GPT-5.4. Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on measured quality. OpenAI: GPT-5.4 takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.