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GPT-5 nanovsQwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. GPT-5 nano has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 4
Qwen3.6 27B leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5 nano
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
94.2446% · —
OpenAI · Qwen
GPT-5 nano
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen · released 2026-04-21
textvision
- Context
- 262K
- Max out
- —
- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 6 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 3 only GPT-5 nano · 1 only Qwen3.6 27B| Benchmark | GPT-5 nano | Qwen3.6 27B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 54.7% ↗ | 77.2% ↗ | -22.5 pt | Qwen3.6 27B |
| GPQA Diamond | 69.4% ↗epoch | 87.8% ↗ | -18.4 pt | Qwen3.6 27B |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 20% ↗epoch | 35.1% ↗epoch | -15.1 pt | Qwen3.6 27B |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 81.1% ↗epoch | 91.1% ↗epoch | -10 pt | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Only GPT-5 nano reports · 3 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | 85% ↗matharena ⚠ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 11.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6 27B reports · 1 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 86.2% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-5 nano minus Qwen3.6 27B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-5 nano | Qwen3.6 27B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 400K tokens | 262K tokens | GPT-5 nano |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.05 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $0.4 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.005 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.45 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | 2026-04-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 7 | 6 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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