GPT-4.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Compare GPT-4.1 by OpenAI against Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B by Qwen, in 3 community votes, qwen: qwen3.5 397b a17b wins 67% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BWinner
GPT-4.1Runner-up
Pick Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. In 3 blind votes, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
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API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-4.1
Input
$2.00
Output
$8.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Input
$0.60
3.3× cheaper
Output
$3.60
2.2× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B is cheaper on both — 3.3× input, 2.2× output
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Style Comparison
Similarity
35%
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B uses 2.4x more transitions
GPT-4.1
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
58%Vocabulary54%
19wSentence Length14w
0.38Hedging0.39
9.0Bold6.9
6.1Lists4.2
0.24Emoji0.23
1.01Headings0.93
0.07Transitions0.17
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