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BenchLM
Model A
GPT-5.4

OpenAI

73.2/100

Supported · Public rank #12

90% interval 70.1–76.2

GPT-5.4 vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Updated August 13, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.

Model B
Qwen3.5 Plus

Alibaba

46.7/100

Estimated · Public rank #147

90% interval 32.8–60.7

Decision reading

GPT-5.4 has the higher public score, 73.16 versus 46.73, and the 90% score intervals do not overlap.

4 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

  • Long documents

    Prompts that approach the documented context limit

    GPT-5.4

    GPT-5.4 has the larger documented context window.

    Confidence: documented

  • Chat turn cost

    1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

    Qwen3.5 Plus

    Qwen3.5 Plus has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Cache-heavy agent loop cost

    200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

    Qwen3.5 Plus

    Qwen3.5 Plus has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Qwen3.5 Plus has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.

    Confidence: rate-fallback

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  • Repository review cost

    50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

    Qwen3.5 Plus

    Qwen3.5 Plus has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Coding work

    Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks

    Not enough matched evidence

    No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.

    Confidence: limited

  • Agentic work

    Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion

    Not enough matched evidence

    No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.

    Confidence: limited

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

Shared results
4
GPT-5.4 only
34
Qwen3.5 Plus only
0
Like-for-like categories
1 / 8

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.

Math

Like-for-like
GPT-5.4
42.5
Qwen3.5 Plus
16.3
Weighted basis
2 vs 2 rows
Reading
GPT-5.4 leads

Agentic

Not comparable
GPT-5.4
77.2
Qwen3.5 Plus
Not measured
Weighted basis
3 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Coding

Not comparable
GPT-5.4
57.7
Qwen3.5 Plus
Not measured
Weighted basis
1 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Reasoning

Not comparable
GPT-5.4
74.0
Qwen3.5 Plus
Not measured
Weighted basis
1 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Knowledge

Not comparable
GPT-5.4
57.6
Qwen3.5 Plus
Not measured
Weighted basis
2 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable
GPT-5.4
Not measured
Qwen3.5 Plus
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multimodal

Not comparable
GPT-5.4
73.2
Qwen3.5 Plus
Not measured
Weighted basis
3 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Instruction following

Not comparable
GPT-5.4
Not measured
Qwen3.5 Plus
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

    Math

    GPT-5.4: 47.600%Qwen3.5 Plus: 21.034%Normalized gap 26.6Shared source

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)

    Math

    GPT-5.4: 27.100%Qwen3.5 Plus: 2.083%Normalized gap 25.0Shared source

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

GPT-5.4
$0.01
Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus
$0.0016
Fits in one request

Qwen3.5 Plus has the lower modeled cost

Costs use the listed standard API rates.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

GPT-5.4
$0.17
Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus
$0.0272
Fits in one request

Qwen3.5 Plus has the lower modeled cost

Costs use the listed standard API rates.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

GPT-5.4
$0.25
Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus
$0.112
Fits in one request
Cached input priced at the published list-input rate

Qwen3.5 Plus has the lower modeled cost

Qwen3.5 Plus has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

GPT-5.4

1.05M

OpenAI pricing

Qwen3.5 Plus

1M

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

GPT-5.4

$0.25 per 1M cached input tokens

OpenAI pricing

Qwen3.5 Plus

Not published

Documented inputs

GPT-5.4

Not sourced

Qwen3.5 Plus

Not sourced

Documented outputs

GPT-5.4

Not sourced

Qwen3.5 Plus

Not sourced

Provider availability

GPT-5.4

Not sourced

Qwen3.5 Plus

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

GPT-5.4

Reasoning

Qwen3.5 Plus

Reasoning

Weight access

GPT-5.4

Proprietary

Qwen3.5 Plus

Proprietary

License

GPT-5.4

Proprietary

Qwen3.5 Plus

Proprietary

Release date

GPT-5.4

2026-03-05

Qwen3.5 Plus

2026-03-04

If you already use one of these models
Deployment change
The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal
GPT-5.4 has the higher public score, 73.16 versus 46.73, and the 90% score intervals do not overlap.
Workload cost
Repository review: $0.17 vs $0.0272. Cache-heavy agent loop: $0.25 vs $0.112.
Context tradeoff
GPT-5.4 has the larger documented window (1.05M).

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence38 rows

Agentic

  • Terminal-Bench 2.0

    GPT-5.475.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • CyberGym

    GPT-5.479.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • BrowseComp

    GPT-5.482.7%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • OSWorld-Verified

    GPT-5.475%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • MCP Atlas

    GPT-5.470.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • Toolathlon

    GPT-5.454.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • τ²-bench results

    GPT-5.498.9%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • Claw-Eval

    GPT-5.460.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • DeepSearchQA

    GPT-5.473.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • Gert Labs

    GPT-5.464.89%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • ResearchClawBench

    GPT-5.415.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • JobBench

    Shared source
    GPT-5.438.9%
    Qwen3.5 Plus18.5%

    GPT-5.4 leads this result

  • ExploitGym

    GPT-5.46.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench Pro

    GPT-5.487.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • SWE-bench Pro

    GPT-5.457.7%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • React Native Evals

    GPT-5.485.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • Vibe Code Bench

    Shared source
    GPT-5.467.42%
    Qwen3.5 Plus15.74%

    GPT-5.4 leads this result

  • EEBench

    GPT-5.438.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

Reasoning

  • ARC-AGI-2

    GPT-5.474.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • ARC-AGI-3

    GPT-5.40.2%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

Knowledge

  • GPQA

    GPT-5.492.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • HLE

    GPT-5.452.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • HLE w/o tools

    GPT-5.439.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • GPQA-D

    GPT-5.492.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • HealthBench Hard

    GPT-5.440.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • MedXpertQA (Text)

    GPT-5.459.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • HealthBench Professional

    GPT-5.448.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

Math

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

    Shared source
    GPT-5.447.600%
    Qwen3.5 Plus21.034%

    GPT-5.4 leads this result

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)

    Shared source
    GPT-5.427.100%
    Qwen3.5 Plus2.083%

    GPT-5.4 leads this result

Multimodal

  • MMMU-Pro

    GPT-5.481.2%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • OfficeQA Pro

    GPT-5.453.2%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • MMMU-Pro w/ Python

    GPT-5.482.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • CharXiv

    GPT-5.482.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • ERQA

    GPT-5.465.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • SimpleVQA

    GPT-5.461.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • ScreenSpot Pro

    GPT-5.485.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • ZeroBench

    GPT-5.441.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

  • MedXpertQA (MM)

    GPT-5.477.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.5 Plus—

    Not directly comparable

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, GPT-5.4 or Qwen3.5 Plus?

GPT-5.4 has the higher public score, 73.16 versus 46.73, and the 90% score intervals do not overlap. That is the clearest overall quality signal in the current public data.

Which is better for coding, GPT-5.4 or Qwen3.5 Plus?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted coding basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a coding winner.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-5.4 or Qwen3.5 Plus?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted agentic tasks basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a agentic tasks winner.

Which costs less, GPT-5.4 or Qwen3.5 Plus?

For the stated presets, chat costs $0.01 on GPT-5.4 and $0.0016 on Qwen3.5 Plus; repository review costs $0.17 and $0.0272; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.25 and $0.112. Qwen3.5 Plus has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.

Which has the larger context window, GPT-5.4 or Qwen3.5 Plus?

GPT-5.4 has the larger documented context window: 1.05M, compared with 1M.

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