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OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-04.

OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
Vendoropenaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-55.6
Input Price$0.05/M$0.42/M
Output Price$0.25/M$3.00/M
Context Window1,050,0001,000,000
Max Output128,000131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-55.6

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) costs $0.11 and Qwen3.8 27B costs $1.17, so GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) is about 10.4 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,050,000 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,575 and 1,500 pages.

Only Qwen3.8 27B offers video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) scores higher on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), Qwen3.8 27B on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) was released in September 2026 and Qwen3.8 27B in August 2026.

Pick GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) if you need lower cost; pick Qwen3.8 27B if you need video input or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
SQL Generation 134 140
Code Review 132 142
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 136 144
Bug Fixing 136 146
Unit Test Generation 124 130
Code Documentation 131 136
Regex Writing 119 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 126
Frontend Component Design 122 128
Data Analysis 124 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 135
ETL Scripting 128 135
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 138 146
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 122 128

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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