Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.4 mini
71
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
65
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.4 mini unranked · Qwen3.5-122B-A10B #8
Pick GPT-5.4 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+9.5 difference
Knowledge
+24.2 difference
Multimodal
+0.6 difference
GPT-5.4 mini
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
$0.75 / $4.5
$0 / $0
201 t/s
N/A
3.85s
N/A
400K
262K
Pick GPT-5.4 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
GPT-5.4 mini is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 71 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.4 mini's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 65.6 against 56.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OSWorld-Verified, 72.1% to 58%. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
GPT-5.4 mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.75 input / $4.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. GPT-5.4 mini gives you the larger context window at 400K, compared with 262K for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.
GPT-5.4 mini is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 71 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OSWorld-Verified, where the scores are 72.1% and 58%.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 57.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.4 mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 56.1. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 76.6. GPT-5.4 mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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