OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen3 Coder Flash
Compare OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra by OpenAI against Qwen3 Coder Flash by Qwen, context windows of 1.1M vs 128K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Qwen3 Coder FlashRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Coder Flash is 10x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Input
$2.50
Output
$15.00
Qwen3 Coder Flash
Input
$0.30
8.3× cheaper
Output
$1.50
10× cheaper
Qwen3 Coder Flash is cheaper on both — 8.3× input, 10× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Qwen3 Coder Flash uses 5.1x more sentence length
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Qwen3 Coder Flash
57%Vocabulary60%
18wSentence Length92w
0.85Hedging0.60
2.8Bold6.1
4.6Lists6.2
0.00Emoji0.00
1.12Headings1.64
0.06Transitions0.18
Based on 27 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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