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Vision Index

GPT-6 Astra vs Qwen3.8-27B

GPT-6 Astra leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 13.7 points, and GPT-6 Astra scores higher on 7 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

OpenAIGPT-6 Astra82.2%Rank #1AlibabaQwen3.8-27B68.5%Rank #6

At a glance

MeasureGPT-6 AstraQwen3.8-27B
Visual Intelligence Index82.2%68.5%
Rank#1 of 9#6 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.$0.864—
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.9.6s32.0s
Tokens per task86,25325,009
Input / 1M tokens$10.00—
Output / 1M tokens$50.00—
Context window1.05M256K
AvailabilityProprietaryOpen weights

How cost and latency are measured

Capabilities

Each capability index is a weighted mean of the benchmarks that contribute to the capability.

CapabilityGPT-6 AstraQwen3.8-27B
Perception80.8%67.8%
Spatial Reasoning84.6%68.6%
Temporal Reasoning83.0%68.4%
Action / Event Understanding79.2%65.2%
Causal Reasoning83.8%72.3%
Information Retrieval80.7%67.0%

Benchmarks

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwen3.8-27B
Video-MME v273.4%50.5%
LVBench81.6%64.6%
Perception Test92.5%72.3%
NExT-QA90.7%82.2%
Q-Bench Video68.3%67.9%
EgoSchema83.4%79.1%
UCF101-AD61.4%45.5%

Usability

GPT-6 Astra

3.5/ 5

Reachable1.0

There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.

  • First-party API — supported
  • Third-party API — supported
Portable0.0

You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.

  • Open weights — not supported
  • Self-hostable — not supported
Multimodal input0.5

It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.

  • Video ingestion — not supported
  • Audio — supported
Programmable1.0

Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.

  • Structured output — supported
  • Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0

Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.

  • Streaming — supported
  • Batch API — supported

Qwen3.8-27B

4.5/ 5

Reachable1.0

There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.

  • First-party API — supported
  • Third-party API — supported
Portable1.0

You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.

  • Open weights — supported
  • Self-hostable — supported
Multimodal input1.0

It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.

  • Video ingestion — supported
  • Audio — supported
Programmable1.0

Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.

  • Structured output — supported
  • Tool calling — supported
Operable0.5

Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.

  • Streaming — supported
  • Batch API — not supported