Head-to-head comparison across 7 benchmark categories
Claude Opus 4.5
76
Qwen3.6 Plus
69
Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
Agentic
+3.2 difference
Coding
+2.3 difference
Reasoning
+5.6 difference
Knowledge
+7.2 difference
Multilingual
+2.5 difference
Multimodal
+0.8 difference
Inst. Following
+3.4 difference
Claude Opus 4.5
Qwen3.6 Plus
$null / $null
$0 / $0
46 t/s
N/A
1.01s
N/A
200K
1M
Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 76 to 69. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 73.2 against 66. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is ScreenSpot Pro, 45.7% to 68.2%. Qwen3.6 Plus does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6 Plus is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.5 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5.
Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall, 76 to 69. The biggest single separator in this matchup is ScreenSpot Pro, where the scores are 45.7% and 68.2%.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.2 versus 66. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 62.6. Inside this category, NL2Repo is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 67.6 versus 62. Inside this category, AI-Needle is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.2 versus 62. Inside this category, VITA-Bench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 78. Inside this category, ScreenSpot Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 90.9. Inside this category, IFBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.2 versus 84.7. Inside this category, MAXIFE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.
Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.