GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.6 Plus
GPT-5.6 Sol 
Qwen3.6 Plus Verdict
- GPT-5.6 Sol (high) leads on quality: 68.2 vs 59.2.
- GPT-5.6 Sol (high) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, knowledge, long context, multimodal.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is stronger in instruction following, reasoning, human preference, maths.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is 7.1× cheaper ($1.13 vs $8.00 per 1M blended).
| Metric | GPT-5.6 Sol (high) | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 68.2 | 59.2 |
| Agents & tools score | 87.9 | 57.0 |
| Coding score | 72.4 | 52.8 |
| Composite score | 82.7 | 48.3 |
| Instruction following score | 67.8 | 73.0 |
| Knowledge score | 73.8 | 59.0 |
| Long context score | 67.4 | 65.7 |
| Multimodal score | 66.4 | 62.4 |
| Reasoning score | 63.3 | 64.3 |
| Human preference score | – | 63.9 |
| Maths score | – | 56.7 |
| Blended price $/M | $8.00 | $1.13 |
| Output speed | 59 tok/s | 56 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 31.0 s | 101.1 s |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| GPQA Diamond | – | 88.4% |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | – | 38.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME | – | 93.3% |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | – | 57.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | – | 44.1% |
| SciCode | 56.9% | 40.7% |
| WeirdML | 88.8% | – |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | – | 147.7 |
| LMArena Text | – | 1444 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | – | 1468 |
| LMArena Coding | – | 1495 |
| LMArena WebDev | – | 1460 |
| LiveBench | – | 68.9% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | – | 75.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | – | 78.2% |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | – | 41.4% |
| LiveBench Mathematics | – | 83.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | – | 69.9% |
| LiveBench Language | – | 75.0% |
| AA Intelligence Index | 42.5 | 27.0 |
| IFBench | 69.2% | 75.2% |
| AA-LCR | 81.7% | 78.3% |
| MMMU-Pro | 81.8% | 78.0% |
| AA-Omniscience | 20.4 | 0.9 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 62.1% | 43.9% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 92.8% | 88.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 46.0% | 27.9% |
| SciCode (AA) | 57.8% | – |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 83.3% | 97.7% |
| AIME (Vals) | – | 94.6% |
| LiveCodeBench | – | 86.0% |
| MMLU-Pro | – | 87.7% |
| LegalBench | – | 84.2% |
| CorpFin | – | 61.9% |
| TaxEval | – | 74.7% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | – | 53.2% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | – | 73.4% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | – | 87.4% |
| Vals Index | – | 32.0 |
| EnigmaEval | 37.1% | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.0% | – |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 85.4% | – |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 2.2% | – |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.6 Plus: questions
- Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Qwen3.6 Plus?
- GPT-5.6 Sol (high) leads on quality: 68.2 vs 59.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-5.6 Sol (high) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?
- GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in coding (72 vs 53 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Qwen3.6 Plus for agentic tasks?
- GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in agentic tasks (88 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Sol or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper: $1.13 against $8.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, GPT-5.6 Sol or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- GPT-5.6 Sol streams faster: 59 against 56 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Both accept 1M tokens of context.