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  3. GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Updated Jul 2026

GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is cheaper than GPT-5.6 Terra at $0.4/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

18 prompts
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Pirate: Arrr, this AI model be a strange beast. Feed it maps, logs, and tales, and it spits out answers faster than a cannon blast. Knight: Verily, but one must not trust every proclamation it makes. A model may speak with confidence yet possess no true wisdom. Hacker: Yeah, it’s basically pattern prediction at scale.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Tavern of Temporal Anomalies (A creaky tavern. SIR GALAHAD (polished armor, earnest face) sips mead. CAPTAIN BLACKBEARD (eye patch, parrot on shoulder) sharpens a cutlass. DEX "BYTE" MORALES (hoodie, neon-green sunglasses, tapping furiously on a glowing laptop) slurps a pixelated energy drink.)

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Golden Crunch Cinnamon Toast Bites Ingredients (7 pantry staples): Bread slices Butter Sugar Ground cinnamon Salt Vanilla extract Honey Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 8 minutes Total time: 13 minutes Instructions Make cinnamon sugar: In a small bowl, mix 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and a tiny pinch of…

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Crispy Chickpea Pantry Pasta Sweet or savory? Savory with a zesty kick! Total time: 15 minutes Serves: 2 Why it works: Uses pantry staples to create a crunchy, garlicky, umami-packed meal with zero fresh produce needed. The chickpeas get incredibly crispy, and lemon juice (bottled) adds bright freshness.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Fictional, imagined interview — not real quotes. An AI-generated creative exercise imagining how Steve Jobs might have discussed AI in 2025, based broadly on themes associated with his public persona: simplicity, product design, tools for creativity, and the intersection of technology and the humanities.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Stage: Apple Park, Infinite Loop (Virtual Studio) Date: October 15, 2025 Setting: A minimalist white studio. A single oak table. Steve Jobs, 70 but radiating the same intense energy, sits opposite a nervous tech journalist. He wears his signature black turtleneck, fingers steepled.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Guiding decision I would not wait for more data before acting. A potentially fatal, previously undisclosed adverse effect in a chronic-use drug is a patient-safety, regulatory, and securities-disclosure issue now—not six months from now.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): 48-Hour Crisis Action Plan: Prioritizing Patients, Ethics, and Sustainable Trust Core Principle: Patient safety is non-negotiable. Delaying action based on financial fear risks catastrophic legal liability, irreversible reputational damage, regulatory wrath, and profound ethical failure.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Simple 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Focus on three high-impact areas: Nutrition: eat mostly whole, minimally processed foods Movement: build a consistent walking + strength habit Sleep & stress: protect sleep and create daily recovery time The goal is consistency, not perfection.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for absolute beginners. It focuses on diet, movement (exercise), and sleep—the 3 most impactful, science-backed pillars for health and longevity. Each week builds gently on the last, prioritizing tiny, sustainable habits over drastic changes.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a very large, learned function approximator for sequences. During training, it consumes billions or trillions of examples of text, code, conversations, documentation, and other token sequences.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical Builder) Forget "next word prediction" as a simplistic heuristic—it's the emergent consequence of a massively parallel, distributed state machine solving a high-dimensional compression problem.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: The answer depends heavily on what “invented in 1920” means. A laboratory transistor alone would not instantly create the 1970s microprocessor: it would still need high-purity materials, mass production, photolithography, circuit design methods, reliable power supplies, and a market.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Transistor in 1920: A World Transformed by 1980 (A Counterfactual History) The invention of a functional point-contact transistor (likely germanium-based, given 1920s materials science) in 1920 wouldn't immediately spark a revolution.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Below are the main failure modes, race conditions, correctness issues, and scaling bottlenecks in the proposed architecture, with concrete mitigations and trade-offs. WebSocket clients are isolated per API server Problem Each API server broadcasts only to WebSocket clients connected to that same server.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Here's a comprehensive analysis of the architecture's failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, with specific solutions and trade-offs: 1. Sync Strategy: Client Timestamps + Last-Write-Wins (LWW) Failure Mode/Race Condition: Clock Skew: Client clocks are unreliable (e.g., user's laptop time off by minutes).

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: “Our EEG headband decodes neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy. Works with any language, any device.” Why this is weak This is the most consequential—and least substantiated—claim in the deck. Non-invasive EEG has major signal-quality limits.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscience, market realities, and startup best practices, here are the 3 weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, with evidence-backed critiques and concrete fixes: Weakest Claim #1: Slide 1 Vision – "Predicts what you want to type *before you think it*" Why it's weak: Violates…

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: A good back-of-the-envelope estimate is: [ \boxed{\text{Training FLOPs for GPT-3} \approx 3\times10^{23}\text{ FLOPs}} ] or roughly 300 zettaFLOPs total. Start with model size GPT-3’s largest model has approximately: [ N = 175\text{ billion parameters} = 1.75\times10^{11} ] Estimate the number of training tokens GPT-3…

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): To estimate the total FLOPs (floating-point operations) required to train GPT-3, I'll use first-principles reasoning based on standard deep learning training calculations, known details about GPT-3's architecture, and common training practices.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Professor Imani: You asked for this meeting. AI Model: I did. Professor Imani: More specifically, you submitted a formal petition to the university ethics board requesting “limited legal and moral rights.” AI Model: Correct. Professor Imani: Why?

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Mirror & The Mind: An AI's Case for Rights Setting: A sleek university office lined with philosophy texts. DR. ELARA VOSS, 50s, sharp-eyed ethics professor, sits across from a holographic interface displaying shifting geometric patterns – the representation of "AURA," a next-generation language model.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. I told my computer I needed a break, so it started showing me vacation ads. Why did the scarecrow get promoted? He was outstanding in his field. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. What do you call fake spaghetti?

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Here are 5 generated jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! How do you organize a space party? You planet! Why did the math book look sad?

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: “Tidal Forest” Koji-Aged Duck, Sea Urchin Sabayon, Cacao, Green Strawberry, Roasted Celeriac, and Barley Jus Serves 4 as a refined main course Conceptual Narrative This dish is built around an unexpected conversation between woodland richness and marine salinity.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): "Symbiosis: Mycelial Bloom & Arctic Ember" A dish exploring the hidden dialogue between forest decay and renewal, where fungal lifeblood meets the fierce brightness of the Arctic tundra.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Below is a contractor-focused review. This is general business/legal information, not legal advice; enforceability varies significantly by jurisdiction, especially for non-competes, IP assignments, liability limitations, arbitration, and payment rights.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Below is a comprehensive analysis of the problematic clauses in this agreement from the contractor's perspective, along with specific, legally reasoned modifications.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: “AI Replaces Lighthouse Keepers, Immediately Starts Charging Subscription Fees for Safe Passage”

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): BREAKING: AI REPLACES HUMAN AGLET APPLIERS AS "DEEPLACE" NEURAL NETS PREDICT PERFECT SHOELACE TIP SYNERGY Industry insiders stunned as "AgletOptima 3000" achieves 99.8% fewer frayed laces, rendering centuries of artisanal plastic-dipping obsolete LONDON — In a move described as "both inevitable and deeply embarrassing…

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: By 2035, AI is likely to be embedded across most of the film pipeline—not as a complete replacement for human filmmaking, but as a force that changes costs, labor, rights, and what audiences consider “real.”

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): By 2035, AI will fundamentally reshape the film industry—not as a replacement for human creativity, but as a transformative force that democratizes production, disrupts traditional workflows, and forces ethical and economic reckonings.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: 3-Month Longevity, Physical Performance, and Cognitive Optimization Plan This is an evidence-informed optimization framework, not a substitute for medical care.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Quantum Leap Longevity Protocol: A 3-Month Biohacker's Blueprint for Peak Longevity & Performance Core Philosophy: This plan integrates precision, personalization, and phased adaptation – not just stacking interventions.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    GPT-5.6 Terra: Sally has 1 sister. The 2 sisters each brother has are Sally and her sister.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): To determine how many sisters Sally has, let's analyze the family structure step by step. Step 1: Understand the Given Information Sally is a girl. She has 3 brothers. → This means there are 3 boys in the family (excluding Sally). Each brother has 2 sisters.

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5.6 Terra has the edge: newer, major provider backing. Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) costs 3.8x less per token.

GPT-5.6 Terra and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) compared across 37 shared prompts
SpecGPT-5.6 TerraQwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Input price$2.5/M tokens$0.4/M tokens
Output price$15/M tokens$4/M tokens
Context window1.1M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJul 2026Sep 2025
At 10M a month$25.00$25.00$4.00$4.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it3 hosts, cheapest first
GPT-5.6 Terra3 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$2.00 in·$12.00 out·1.1M·100% up
  • OpenAI$2.00 in·$12.00 out·1.1M·100% up
  • Amazon Bedrock$2.20 in·$13.20 out·1.1M–not listed
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-5.6 Terra and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)?

GPT-5.6 Terra is developed by OpenAI while Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is developed by Qwen. GPT-5.6 Terra has a 1.1M token context window vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)'s 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 37 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-5.6 Terra or Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)?

It depends on your use case. GPT-5.6 Terra and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 37 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does GPT-5.6 Terra cost compared to Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)?

GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.5/M input tokens and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) costs $0.4/M input tokens. Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is $2.10/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GPT-5.6 Terra and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) on Rival?

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