GPT-4o (May '24) vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

OpenAI · Alibaba · catalog 2026-09-14

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct beats GPT-4o (May '24): cheaper ($0.232 vs $6/M) and at least as smart (index 7.3 vs 7.3).

	GPT-4o (May '24)	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Speed (tok/s)	100.4 measured	119.7 measured
Blended $/M	$6 derived	$0.232 derived
Intelligence index	7.3 measured	7.3 measured
TTFT (ms)	104 measured	223 measured
Context	128k list	262k list
Coding index	not measured for both
Agentic index	not measured for both

GPT-4o (May '24) card · Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.