GPT-5.4 vs Qwen 3 Max

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	GPT-5.4 OpenAI's more affordable frontier model for coding and professional work, sitting below GPT-5.5.	Qwen 3 Max Alibaba's open-weights frontier model; very strong on Chinese + code.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	open source
Pricing	usage	free
Strengths	+ Half the per-token price of GPT-5.5 while staying in the frontier coding/professional tier + 1M-token context window with up to 128K output tokens + mini variant targeted at subagent and computer-use workloads for high-volume agent fleets	+ Open weights + Best-in-class for Chinese-language workloads + Strong on coding benchmarks
Tradeoffs	− OpenAI directs complex reasoning and coding to GPT-5.5 instead − Older knowledge cutoff (Aug 31, 2025) than GPT-5.5	− Inference infra is the team's problem
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