GPT-4o mini 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

GPT-4o mini· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o mini only becomes the better choice if coding 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 54. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 78.8 against 60.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OSWorld-Verified, 44% to 62.5%. GPT-4o mini does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4o mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.15 input / $0.60 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-4o 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. Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for GPT-4o mini.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$0.15 / $0.60Free*
Speed33 t/sN/A
TTFT3.16sN/A
Context128K1M

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.

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniQwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.058%61.6%
BrowseComp49%
OSWorld-Verified44%62.5%
Claw-Eval58.7%
QwenClawBench57.2%
QwenWebBench1502
TAU3-Bench70.7%
VITA-Bench44.3%
DeepPlanning41.5%
Toolathlon39.8%
MCP Atlas48.2%
MCP-Tasks74.1%
WideResearch74.3%
CodingGPT-4o mini wins
HumanEval87.2%
SWE-bench Pro65%56.6%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro66%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro53%
MMMU86.0%
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%
ReasoningQwen3.6 Plus wins
LongBench v249%62%
MRCRv250%
AI-Needle68.3%
Knowledge
MMLU82%
GPQA90.4%
SuperGPQA71.6%
MMLU-Pro88.5%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
HLE28.8%
Instruction Following
IFEval94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MGSM87%
MMLU-ProX68%84.7%
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 (6)

Which is better, GPT-4o mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 54. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OSWorld-Verified, where the scores are 44% and 62.5%.

Which is better for coding, GPT-4o mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 65 versus 64.9. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GPT-4o mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 49.5. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-4o mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 50.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GPT-4o mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 60.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GPT-4o mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 74.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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