Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-4.1
58
Qwen3.6 Plus
73
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-4.1 unranked · Qwen3.6 Plus #12
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Coding
+10.2 difference
Knowledge
+0.3 difference
Inst. Following
+0.4 difference
GPT-4.1
Qwen3.6 Plus
$2 / $8
$null / $null
108 t/s
N/A
1.02s
N/A
1M
1M
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge 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 provisional aggregate, 73 to 58. 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 64.8 against 54.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 54.6% to 78.8%. GPT-4.1 does hit back in knowledge, 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 GPT-4.1 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 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 73 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 54.6% and 78.8%.
GPT-4.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.3 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 64.8 versus 54.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87.8 versus 87.4. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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