Comparing 2 models

GPT-6.1 Sol vs Qwen3.8 27B

Benchmarks through

Verdict

GPT-6.1 Sol places higher on 2 of the 2 tasks where both are ranked. Qwen3.8 27B costs 50.0x less per input token. GPT-6.1 Sol accepts 1.1x more context. Only Qwen3.8 27B has open weights for self-hosting.

  • Choose GPT-6.1 Sol for Structured Data Extraction (#2), JSON & Schema Output (#2).
  • Choose Qwen3.8 27B for you need to self-host.

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

metric
Model 1GPT-6.1 Sol
Model 2Qwen3.8 27B
Best for
Image Understanding (#1)
Best Cheap LLM for High Volume (#1)
Provider
openai
qwen
Context
1.1MBest
1M
Input / 1M
$2
$0.040Best
Output / 1M
$10
$1.35Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
—
yesBest
Released
Sep 29, 2026
Aug 14, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 27BSource
LiveBench Agentic Coding54.5%61.4%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Coding80.4%75.7%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Data Analysis82.7%76.6%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Instruction Following74.2%72.7%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Language90.1%74.3%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Math96.8%86.2%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Reasoning92.6%80.0%source · 2026-10-18
LMArena Agent13.5-3.8source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Steerability13.1-3.9source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Task Outcome13.8-1.5source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination0.7-0.1source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Creative Writing1425 Elo1383 Elosource · 2026-10-20
LMArena Instruction Following1466 Elo1436 Elosource · 2026-10-20
LMArena Long Query1458 Elo1448 Elosource · 2026-10-20
LMArena Math1489 Elo1455 Elosource · 2026-10-20
LMArena Text1479 Elo1437 Elosource · 2026-10-20
LMArena Text Factuality1462 Elo1437 Elosource · 2026-10-20
LMArena Vision1294 Elo1242 Elosource · 2026-10-19
LMArena Vision Diagrams1319 Elo1270 Elosource · 2026-10-19
LMArena Vision OCR1297 Elo1262 Elosource · 2026-10-19
LMArena WebDev1753 Elo1593 Elosource · 2026-10-19
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web1702 Elo1577 Elosource · 2026-10-19

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.

task evidence

How they place when the question changes

Lower ranks are better. “Best” marks the strongest option in this shortlist for that task.