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GPT-5.4 Mini vs Qwen 3.5 397B A17B

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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GPT-5.4 Mini
openai/gpt-5.4-mini
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Provider
OpenAI
Alibaba
Family
GPT-5
Qwen
Modality
text
text
Context window
128,000 tok
262,144 tok
Max output
16,384 tok
4,096 tok
Released
2026-05-22
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Open-weight
Input price
$0.750 /1M
$0.600 /1M
Output price
$4.50 /1M
$3.60 /1M
Cache read
$0.075 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Prompt caching
yes
Batch API
yes
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GPT-5.4 Mini
openai/gpt-5.4-mini
Full spec →

GPT-5.4 mini is a smaller, faster, and more cost-efficient version of GPT-5.4 for lightweight tasks.

Strengths
  • Very cheap per token
  • Fast
  • Full tool + vision support
Use cases
Drafts + rewritesBulk batch jobsCost-sensitive production
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Full spec →

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 is a 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters, offering strong reasoning capabilities with efficient inference.

Strengths
  • MoE efficiency: 17B active of 397B
  • Strong reasoning at low cost
  • 262k context
Use cases
Production chatMulti-lingualCost-sensitive reasoning

Benchmarks

GPT-5.4 Mini
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
HumanEval
88.6
MMLU
84.5

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# GPT-5.4 Mini
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-5.4-mini",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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