OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B
Compare OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol by OpenAI against Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B by Qwen, context windows of 1.1M vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Input
$5.00
Output
$30.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B
Input
$0.30
17× cheaper
Output
$2.40
13× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B is cheaper on both — 17× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
33%
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol uses 3.3x more emoji
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B
63%Vocabulary51%
15wSentence Length15w
0.79Hedging0.32
3.4Bold7.3
3.8Lists4.8
0.03Emoji0.01
0.95Headings0.87
0.08Transitions0.19
Based on 27 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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