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GPT-5.4 Nano vs Qwen3.6 Flash

List-price comparison ·GPT-5.4 Nano details ·Qwen3.6 Flash details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3.6 Flash is the cheapest — 9% less than the priciest here ($67.50/mo vs $74.00/mo).

 GPT-5.4 NanoQwen3.6 Flash
Input / 1M tokens$0.200$0.188
Output / 1M tokens$1.25$1.13
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0007$0.0007
Context window400k tokens1M tokens
Max output128k tokens65,536 tokens
Quality score62/10068/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderOpenAIQwen

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moGPT-5.4 NanoQwen3.6 Flash
1,000$0.74$0.675
10,000$7.40$6.75
100,000$74.00$67.50
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GPT-5.4 Nano

Cheapest OpenAI option for high-throughput classification, tagging, and routing — ideal as a first-pass filter before a stronger model.

Limited reasoning depth means it should be treated as a triage layer, not a final answer source, for anything business-critical.

Qwen3.6 Flash

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