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GPT 5.4 Mini vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare GPT 5.4 Mini from OpenAI and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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GPT 5.4 Mini
OpenAI · text, image → text

GPT-5.4 mini is a faster, more efficient model that inherits the advantages of GPT-5.4 and is specifically optimized for high-volume workloads.

Input$0.75 /M
Output$4.5 /M
Cache read$0.075 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

GPT 5.4 Mini
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.75
$1.69
Output /M
$4.5
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.075
$0.169
Context length
400,000
1,000,000
Max output
128,000
131,072
Time to First Token
1.0 s
12.5 s
Throughput
114.5 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweb
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
chat_completions · responses · claude_api
Released
March 17, 2026
August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
gpt-5.4-miniqwen3.8-max
14201440146014801500
Overall
14471482
Vision
gpt-5.4-miniqwen3.8-max
122012601300
Overall
12511301
WebDev Arena
gpt-5.4-miniqwen3.8-max
13801460154016201700
Overall
13981672

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

GPT 5.4 Mini
$113 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GPT 5.4 Mini, Qwen3.8 Max?

GPT 5.4 Mini: $4.5/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

GPT 5.4 Mini: 1.0s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

GPT 5.4 Mini accepts 400,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GPT 5.4 Mini and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GPT 5.4 Mini at 114.5 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GPT 5.4 Mini accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and web search; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call GPT 5.4 Mini and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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