Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.6
91
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
72
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.6 #3 · Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) unranked
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Agentic
+7.2 difference
Coding
+10.3 difference
Knowledge
+2.3 difference
Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
$5 / $25
N/A
40 t/s
N/A
1.78s
N/A
1M
256K
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Claude Opus 4.6 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 91 to 72. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.6's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 64.4 against 54.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SuperGPQA, 95% to 73.9%.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.6 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. Claude Opus 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Qwen 3.6 Max (preview).
Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 91 to 72. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SuperGPQA, where the scores are 95% and 73.9%.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.2 versus 73.9. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.4 versus 54.1. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 65.4. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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