Composer 2 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Composer 2· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Composer 2 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 62. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 62 against 61.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 61.7% to 61.6%.

Composer 2 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.6 Plus. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Composer 2.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$0.50 / $2.50Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K1M

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkComposer 2Qwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.061.7%61.6%
Claw-Eval58.7%
QwenClawBench57.2%
QwenWebBench1502
TAU3-Bench70.7%
VITA-Bench44.3%
DeepPlanning41.5%
Toolathlon39.8%
MCP Atlas48.2%
MCP-Tasks74.1%
WideResearch74.3%
OSWorld-Verified62.5%
Coding
SWE Multilingual73.7%73.8%
React Native Evals96.2%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE-bench Pro56.6%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU86.0%
MMMU-Pro78.8%
RealWorldQA85.4%
OmniDocBench 1.591.2%
Video-MME (with subtitle)87.8%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)84.2%
MathVision88.0%
We-Math89.0%
DynaMath88.0%
MStar83.3%
SimpleVQA67.3%
ChatCVQA81.5%
MMLongBench-Doc62.0%
CC-OCR83.4%
AI2D_TEST94.4%
CountBench97.6%
RefCOCO (avg)93.5%
ODINW1351.8%
ERQA65.7%
VideoMMMU84.0%
MLVU (M-Avg)86.7%
ScreenSpot Pro68.2%
Reasoning
AI-Needle68.3%
LongBench v262%
Knowledge
GPQA90.4%
SuperGPQA71.6%
MMLU-Pro88.5%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
HLE28.8%
Instruction Following
IFEval94.3%
IFBench74.2%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Composer 2 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 61.7% and 61.6%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Composer 2 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 61.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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