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GPT-4.1 vs Qwen3.5 27B

Compare GPT-4.1 and Qwen3.5 27B side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Open Prompt, Image Captioning, OCR, Object Detection, and Classification.

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GPT-4.1 vs Qwen3.5 27B Comparison Table

Evals updated August 6, 2026Pricing updated August 7, 2026

PropertyGPT-4.1Qwen3.5 27B
OrganizationOpenAIQwen
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateApr 2025Feb 2026
Context Window1.0M262K
Parameters27B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.00$0.195
Output $/1M$8.00$1.56
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallDeprecated
64.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.0007
Avg speed / sample7.38s
By task
Object Detection
58.8%
$0.0013
Counting
54.0%
$0.0002
Identification
78.1%
$0.0002
OCR
84.5%
$0.0009
Data Extraction
78.3%
$0.0002
Reasoning (low)
31.8%
$0.0002
Reasoning (high)
61.6%
$0.0065

GPT-4.1 vs Qwen3.5 27B: Overview

GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a multimodal large language model that advances the GPT-4 series with major improvements in coding, reasoning, and instruction following. It accepts both text and images, supports tool calling and structured outputs, and features an expanded context window of up to ~1 million tokens—enabling it to process very large documents, multi-file codebases, or long conversations in a single prompt. Its knowledge is current through June 2024.

The GPT-4.1 family includes standard, mini, and nano variants, offering trade-offs between performance, cost, and latency. While parameter counts remain undisclosed, the series improves efficiency and responsiveness compared to GPT-4, making it suitable for both enterprise-scale tasks and cost-sensitive applications. Common use cases include software development, technical research, knowledge management, multimodal analysis, and high-context enterprise assistants.

Qwen3.5 27B

Qwen3.5-27B is a multimodal dense hybrid model developed by Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team and released in February 2026 as a high-precision entry in the Qwen3.5 "Medium" series. Unlike its Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) siblings, the 27B model utilizes a dense architecture combining Gated Delta Networks with a feed-forward structure, activating its full parameter suite for every inference to maximize reliability. This design provides the highest instruction-following and coding accuracy in its class, with a notable IFEval score of 95.0. The model features a native 262K-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens via YaRN (RoPE scaling), and is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Optimized for agentic workflows, Qwen3.5-27B employs an early-fusion architecture that treats visual and textual data as a unified stream for deep cross-modal reasoning. This unified approach allows the model to excel in technical analysis and software engineering, matching GPT-5-mini with a 72.4% score on SWE-bench Verified. While the larger MoE variants in the family lead in raw knowledge benchmarks, the 27B model offers a stable and high-density alternative for structured data extraction and spatial perception, contributing to the Qwen3.5 family’s generational leap in OCR accuracy over the previous Qwen3-VL series.