OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-04.
| OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | openai | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 63.8 | 55.6 |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | Free |
| Output Price | $0.50/M | Free |
| Context Window | 1,050,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 235,929 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 62.9 | 55.6 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.8 27B (free) costs $0 and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.23, so Qwen3.8 27B (free) is free for the same work.
GPT-6 Luna reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Qwen3.8 27B (free).
Only Qwen3.8 27B (free) offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score GPT-6 Luna leads 63.8 to 55.6.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-6 Luna scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Qwen3.8 27B (free) on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling).
GPT-6 Luna was released in September 2026 and Qwen3.8 27B (free) in August 2026.
Pick GPT-6 Luna if you need long documents, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Qwen3.8 27B (free) if you need lower cost or video input.
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?
| Task | OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 141 | 137 |
| Code Review | 144 | 137 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 146 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 148 | 141 |
| Unit Test Generation | 131 | 127 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 126 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 127 | 123 |
| Frontend Component Design | 129 | 128 |
| Data Analysis | 133 | 132 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 130 |
| ETL Scripting | 136 | 130 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 148 | 138 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 127 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 129 | 125 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →