GPT-5.4 Nano vs Qwen Plus 0728

GPT-5.4 Nano at $0.230 in and $1.44 out and Qwen Plus 0728 at $0.299 in and $0.897 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

GPT-5.4 Nano

OpenAI

0.23¢

for a client proposal

$0.230 in · $1.44 out / 1M

400K context · released 5 months ago

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Qwen Plus 0728

Qwen

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.299 in · $0.897 out / 1M

1M context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.45¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GPT-5.4 Nano at $0.230 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Qwen Plus 0728 at $0.897 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen Plus 0728 at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

GPT-5.4 Nano

0.12¢

Qwen Plus 0728

0.1¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

GPT-5.4 Nano

0.23¢

Qwen Plus 0728

0.22¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

GPT-5.4 Nano

4.1¢

Qwen Plus 0728

5¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

GPT-5.4 Nano

0.95¢

Qwen Plus 0728

1.1¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

GPT-5.4 Nano

$0.06

Qwen Plus 0728

$0.08

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

GPT-5.4 Nano

Qwen Plus 0728

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

GPT-5.4 Nano

Qwen Plus 0728

Input / 1M tokens

$0.230

$0.299

Output / 1M tokens

$1.44

$0.897

Cached input / 1M

$0.023

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Web search

1.1¢ / search

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Specs

GPT-5.4 Nano

Qwen Plus 0728

Provider

OpenAI

Qwen

Released

5 months ago

September 2025

Context window

400K

Max output

128K

33K

Input

Files, Images, and Text

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2025-08-31

2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

GPT-5.4 Nano

OpenAI

0.12¢

for this task

39% input · 61% output

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Qwen Plus 0728

Qwen

0.1¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.22¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,246 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen Plus 0728 has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Qwen Plus 0728 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.22¢.

For images or files, GPT-5.4 Nano can read them directly; Qwen Plus 0728 is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, GPT-5.4 Nano shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

GPT-5.4 Nano pricing →Qwen Plus 0728 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 Nano or Qwen Plus 0728?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen Plus 0728 at 0.22¢; GPT-5.4 Nano at 0.23¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen Plus 0728 — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run GPT-5.4 Nano and Qwen Plus 0728 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.45¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.45¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.