Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-4.1 mini
56
1/8 categoriesQwen3.6 Plus
69
Winner · 6/8 categoriesGPT-4.1 mini· Qwen3.6 Plus
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 mini only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 56. 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 coding, where it averages 64.9 against 27.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 23.6% to 78.8%. GPT-4.1 mini does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
GPT-4.1 mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.40 input / $1.60 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 is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-4.1 mini 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.
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| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 54% | 61.6% |
| BrowseComp | 71% | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 49% | 62.5% |
| Claw-Eval | — | 58.7% |
| QwenClawBench | — | 57.2% |
| QwenWebBench | — | 1502 |
| TAU3-Bench | — | 70.7% |
| VITA-Bench | — | 44.3% |
| DeepPlanning | — | 41.5% |
| Toolathlon | — | 39.8% |
| MCP Atlas | — | 48.2% |
| MCP-Tasks | — | 74.1% |
| WideResearch | — | 74.3% |
| CodingQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| SWE-bench Verified | 23.6% | 78.8% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 30% | 56.6% |
| SWE Multilingual | — | 73.8% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 87.1% |
| NL2Repo | — | 37.9% |
| Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 66% | 78.8% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 74% | — |
| MMMU | — | 86.0% |
| RealWorldQA | — | 85.4% |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | — | 91.2% |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | — | 87.8% |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | — | 84.2% |
| MathVision | — | 88.0% |
| We-Math | — | 89.0% |
| DynaMath | — | 88.0% |
| MStar | — | 83.3% |
| SimpleVQA | — | 67.3% |
| ChatCVQA | — | 81.5% |
| MMLongBench-Doc | — | 62.0% |
| CC-OCR | — | 83.4% |
| AI2D_TEST | — | 94.4% |
| CountBench | — | 97.6% |
| RefCOCO (avg) | — | 93.5% |
| ODINW13 | — | 51.8% |
| ERQA | — | 65.7% |
| VideoMMMU | — | 84.0% |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | — | 86.7% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | — | 68.2% |
| ReasoningGPT-4.1 mini wins | ||
| LongBench v2 | 80% | 62% |
| MRCRv2 | 82% | — |
| AI-Needle | — | 68.3% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| MMLU | 87.5% | — |
| GPQA | 64.2% | 90.4% |
| FrontierScience | 61% | — |
| SuperGPQA | — | 71.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 88.5% |
| MMLU-Redux | — | 94.5% |
| C-Eval | — | 93.3% |
| HLE | — | 28.8% |
| Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| IFEval | 88.5% | 94.3% |
| IFBench | — | 74.2% |
| MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| MMLU-ProX | 72% | 84.7% |
| NOVA-63 | — | 57.9% |
| INCLUDE | — | 85.1% |
| PolyMath | — | 77.4% |
| VWT2k-lite | — | 84.3% |
| MAXIFE | — | 88.2% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2024 | 23.1% | — |
| AIME26 | — | 95.3% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 96.7% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 94.6% |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | — | 87.8% |
| MMAnswerBench | — | 83.8% |
Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 23.6% and 78.8%.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 62.3. 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 27.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 62. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 56.5. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified 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 69.6. Inside this category, MMMU-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 88.5. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 72. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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