GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.8 Max API pricing
For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Qwen3.8 Max costs $0.00449 per request and GPT-5.6 Sol costs $0.014, so Qwen3.8 Max is about 3.1× cheaper.
On the overall leaderboard GPT-5.6 Sol ranks #11 and Qwen3.8 Max ranks #14.
Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.
Prices and rankings
| USD per million tokens | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $4 | $1.79List ¥12 |
| Output | $20 | $5.38List ¥36 |
| Cached input | $0.4 | — |
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Release date | 2026-07-09 | 2026-07-19 |
| Overall rank | #11 | #14 |
| Coding rank | #9 | #14 |
| Reasoning rank | #5 | #16 |
| Knowledge rank | #8 | — |
| Professional work rank | #24 | #11 |
| Verified | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 |
| Price source | Price source | Price source |
Cost per request by usage
Without cache discounts or batch pricing.
| Usage | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.8 Max | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat message1K in / 500 out | $0.014$14 per 1,000 | $0.00449$4.49 per 1,000 | Qwen3.8 Max is 3.1× cheaper |
| Long document100K in / 2K out | $0.44$440 per 1,000 | $0.19$190.24 per 1,000 | Qwen3.8 Max is 2.3× cheaper |
| Agent session500K in / 50K out | $3$3,000 per 1,000 | $1.17$1,166.58 per 1,000 | Qwen3.8 Max is 2.6× cheaper |
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