$ diff qwen-3-8 gpt-5-6-sol
Qwen 3.8 Max vs GPT-5.6 Sol
Values come from Qwen 3.8 Max and GPT-5.6 Sol, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Alibaba QwenQwen 3.8 Max
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $6
- context
- 1.1M
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $5
- $/M out
- $30
What actually differs
- Context window
- GPT-5.6 Sol takes 1.1M against 1M — modestly more room in a single request.
- Input price
- Qwen 3.8 Max at $2/M against $5/M — 2.5× cheaper to feed.
- Output price
- Qwen 3.8 Max at $6/M against $30/M — 5.0× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Weights
- Qwen 3.8 Max publishes weights (Open-weight announced for the week of 2026-08-10; not yet shipped); GPT-5.6 Sol is API-only. That decides self-hosting, air-gapped deployment and fine-tuning before any capability question does.
- Recency
- Qwen 3.8 Max shipped 25 days after GPT-5.6 Sol (2026-08-03 vs 2026-07-09).
Full spec
| Attribute | Qwen 3.8 Max | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Alibaba Qwen | OpenAI |
| Released | 2026-08-03 | 2026-07-09 |
| Context window | 1 million tokens | 1.05M tokens |
| Pricing | $2 / M input · $6 / M output | $5/M input · $30/M output (Sol; family tiers below) |
| License | Open-weight announced for the week of 2026-08-10; not yet shipped | proprietary (API-only; no weight release) |
| Availability | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (global), QwenWork | ChatGPT (subscription), API |