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Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs Qwen3.6-27B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 4 shared benchmark results across 2 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

27.44/100
Margin
26.4pts
winning →
53.82/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: GPT-4 Turbo #188 (Supported); Qwen3.6-27B #93 (Estimated). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. GPT-4 Turbo and Qwen3.6-27B share 4 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 0 results are unique to GPT-4 Turbo; 50 to Qwen3.6-27B.

Updated July 21, 2026
Shared results
4
GPT-4 Turbo only
0
Qwen3.6-27B only
50
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for GPT-4 Turbo and Qwen3.6-27B is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 4 shared benchmark results across 2 evidence categories; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

GPT-4 Turbo is priced at $10.00 input / $30.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.6-27B. Qwen3.6-27B has the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for GPT-4 Turbo.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for GPT-4 Turbo and Qwen3.6-27B
CategoryGPT-4 TurboΔQwen3.6-27B
AgenticGPT-4 TurboNot measuredMarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27B59.3
CodingGPT-4 TurboNot measuredMarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27B77.5
KnowledgeGPT-4 TurboNot measuredMarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27B53.3
MathGPT-4 TurboNot measuredMarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27B89.2
MultimodalGPT-4 TurboNot measuredMarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27B76.7

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensGPT-4 Turbo$10 input / $30 outputQwen3.6-27B$0 input / $0 outputQwen3.6-27B has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondGPT-4 Turbo30 tok/sQwen3.6-27BNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenGPT-4 Turbo2.84 sQwen3.6-27BNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensGPT-4 Turbo128KQwen3.6-27B262KQwen3.6-27B lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BResult
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 59.3%Not comparable
Claw-EvalSource 72.4%Not comparable
QwenClawBenchSource 53.4%Not comparable
QwenWebBenchSource 1487Not comparable
AndroidWorldSource 70.3%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 27.0%Not comparable
τ²-bench resultsSource 94.2%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 32.0%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 1140Not comparable
Gert LabsSource 54.84%Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BResult
AA Coding IndexSource 21.5%53.7%Qwen3.6-27B leads
AA-SciCodeSource 31.9%39.8%Qwen3.6-27B leads
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 77.2%Not comparable
SWE MultilingualSource 71.3%Not comparable
SWE-bench ProSource 53.5%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 59.3%Not comparable
LiveCodeBenchSource 83.9%Not comparable
NL2RepoSource 36.2%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BResult
AA-LCRSource 68.7%Not comparable
CritPtSource 1.1%Not comparable
Knowledge
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BResult
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 7.9%37.0%Qwen3.6-27B leads
AA-HLESource 3.3%21.6%Qwen3.6-27B leads
MMLU-ProSource 86.2%Not comparable
MMLU-ReduxSource 93.5%Not comparable
SuperGPQASource 66%Not comparable
C-EvalSource 91.4%Not comparable
GPQASource 87.8%Not comparable
HLESource 24%Not comparable
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 84.2%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -19.8%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 19.2%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 48.3%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BResult
HMMT Feb 2025Source 93.8%Not comparable
HMMT Nov 2025Source 90.7%Not comparable
HMMT Feb 2026Source 84.3%Not comparable
MMAnswerBenchSource 80.8%Not comparable
AIME26Source 94.1%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BResult
MMMUSource 82.9%Not comparable
MMMU-ProSource 75.8%Not comparable
RealWorldQASource 84.1%Not comparable
DynaMathSource 85.6%Not comparable
MStarSource 81.4%Not comparable
SimpleVQASource 56.1%Not comparable
CharXivSource 78.4%Not comparable
CC-OCRSource 81.2%Not comparable
CountBenchSource 97.8%Not comparable
RefCOCO (avg)Source 92.5%Not comparable
ERQASource 62.5%Not comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)Source 87.7%Not comparable
VideoMMMUSource 84.4%Not comparable
MLVU (M-Avg)Source 86.6%Not comparable
V*Source 94.7%Not comparable
AA-MMMU-ProSource 74.6%Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.6-27BResult
AA-IFBenchSource 67.6%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare GPT-4 Turbo and Qwen3.6-27B on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for GPT-4 Turbo and Qwen3.6-27B today?

GPT-4 Turbo: $10.00 input / $30.00 output per 1M tokens Qwen3.6-27B: $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

Self-host vs API cost

Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.

GPT-4 Turbo
API / mo$30,000
Self-host / moNot listed
Break-even
Proprietary model — self-hosting not applicable.
Qwen3.6-27B
API / mo$0
Self-host / mo$429
Break-even
Model the full break-even

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Last updated: July 21, 2026

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