Qwen3.8 27B is 4.1× cheaper per million tokens (blended). GPT-5.6 Terra has the larger context window (1,050,000 vs 1,000,000 tokens). Qwen3.8 27B is open-weights; the other is not.

GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen3.8 27B

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GPT-5.6 Terra

OpenAI · openai__gpt-5.6-terra

Qwen3.8 27Bopen

Qwen · qwen__qwen3.8-27b

Identity

Fieldopenai__gpt-5.6-terraqwen__qwen3.8-27b
ProviderOpenAIQwen
Slugopenai__gpt-5.6-terraqwen__qwen3.8-27b
Statuslivelive
Open weightsNoYes
License
HuggingFaceQwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Quality

Fieldopenai__gpt-5.6-terraqwen__qwen3.8-27b
Quality index (0–100)89.0

Cost

Fieldopenai__gpt-5.6-terraqwen__qwen3.8-27b
Input $ / 1M tokens$2.00$0.42
Cached input $ / 1M$0.20$0.09
Output $ / 1M tokens$12.00$3.00

Context

Fieldopenai__gpt-5.6-terraqwen__qwen3.8-27b
Max context tokens1,050,0001,000,000
Max output tokens128,000131,072

Modalities

Fieldopenai__gpt-5.6-terraqwen__qwen3.8-27b
Inputfile, image, texttext, image, video
Outputtexttext