GPT-6 Astra vs Qwen3.8-Max

GPT-6 Astra leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 8.3 points, and GPT-6 Astra scores higher on 5 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

Model

Compared with

At a glance

Measure	GPT-6 Astra	Qwen3.8-Max
Visual Intelligence Index	82.2%	73.8%
Rank	#1 of 9	#4 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.	$0.864	$0.151
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.	9.6s	66.0s
Tokens per task	86,253	68,932
Input / 1M tokens	$10.00	$2.00
Output / 1M tokens	$50.00	$6.00
Context window	1.05M	1M
Availability	Proprietary	Proprietary

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

Capability	GPT-6 Astra	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Perception	80.8%	72.0%	+8.8
Spatial Reasoning	84.6%	74.3%	+10.3
Temporal Reasoning	83.0%	73.6%	+9.4
Action / Event Understanding	79.2%	71.5%	+7.7
Causal Reasoning	83.8%	78.2%	+5.6
Information Retrieval	80.7%	72.0%	+8.7

Benchmark	GPT-6 Astra	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Video-MME v2	73.4%	60.2%	+13.2
LVBench	81.6%	58.9%	+22.7
Perception Test	92.5%	83.9%	+8.6
NExT-QA	90.7%	87.6%	+3.1
Q-Bench Video	68.3%	69.0%	−0.7
EgoSchema	83.4%	85.2%	−1.8
UCF101-AD	61.4%	56.5%	+4.9

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

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 — supported
Audio — not 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