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GPT-5.4 Nano vs Qwen3.5 9b

Qwen3.5 9b: 56.0% average across four Vision Evals tasks (#44 of 65 models). We have not run GPT-5.4 Nano through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.

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GPT-5.4 Nano vs Qwen3.5 9b Comparison Table

Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 4, 2026

PropertyGPT-5.4 NanoQwen3.5 9b
OrganizationOpenAIQwen
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateMar 2026Mar 2026
Context Window400K262K
ParametersUnknown9B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termsfree for commercial use
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.200$0.170
Output $/1M$1.25$0.250
Vision Tasks
ClassificationDemoSupported
Object DetectionDemoSupported
Both support 8 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks
OverallNot evaluated
56.0%*
Quantizationsself-hosted
BF1656.0%FP854.8%AWQ-INT457.4%hardware →
Avg cost / sample–$0.0021
Avg speed / sample–41.36s
By task
Object Detection–
38.1%
±5.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 33.5 to 44.9
$0
Counting–
56.8%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 55.4 to 58.1
$0
Identification–
83.3%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.3 to 84.4
$0
OCR––
by category
Reasoning–
45.9%
±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 44.4 to 47.7
$0

GPT-5.4 Nano vs Qwen3.5 9b: Overview

GPT-5.4 Nano

GPT-5.4 nano is a high-throughput model developed by OpenAI and released on March 17, 2026, as the efficiency-optimized entry in the GPT-5.4 family. Engineered for cost-sensitive production environments and latency-critical workloads, it features an expanded 400,000-token context window that enables the processing of large document batches or extensive logs in a single pass. The model is primarily optimized for text-heavy operations, serving as a premier engine for high-volume classification, data extraction, ranking, and the orchestration of lightweight sub-agents where speed and low per-token costs are the primary requirements.

While it supports text and image inputs, GPT-5.4 nano is designed as a text-first worker rather than a specialized visual reasoning tool. In multi-model architectures, it is best utilized for structured text tasks and simple coding sub-tasks, leaving intensive vision reasoning and UI navigation to its sibling, GPT-5.4 mini. Compared to the previous GPT-5 nano, this version provides a significant leap in reliability for structured outputs and tool calling, making it a dependable and economical choice for developers building scalable, automated pipelines that require rapid execution at the edge of the GPT-5.4 ecosystem.

Qwen3.5 9b

Qwen3.5-9B is a 9-billion-parameter multimodal foundation model developed by Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team, released on March 2, 2026 as part of the Qwen3.5 model family.

The model supports vision-language inputs through an early-fusion multimodal architecture built on a dense hybrid foundation of Gated Delta Networks and Gated Attention. It can also operate in a text-only mode by skipping the vision encoder during inference. It provides a 262,144-token context window (extensible to ~1M tokens via YaRN) and is released under the Apache License 2.0. Within the current AI landscape, Qwen3.5-9B offers a strong balance of capability and efficiency, making it well-suited for multimodal assistants, document analysis, long-context reasoning, and developer-deployed agentic systems.