GPT-4o 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· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o 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 49. 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 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 20% to 78.8%. GPT-4o does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4o is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.50 input / $10.00 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 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.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$2.50 / $10.00Free*
Speed131 t/sN/A
TTFT0.81sN/A
Context128K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.049%61.6%
OSWorld-Verified48%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%
CodingQwen3.6 Plus wins
HumanEval58%
SWE-bench Verified20%78.8%
LiveCodeBench38%
SWE-bench Pro29%56.6%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
OfficeQA Pro70%
VideoMMMU61.2%84.0%
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%
MLVU (M-Avg)86.7%
ScreenSpot Pro68.2%
ReasoningGPT-4o wins
MuSR62%
BBH82%
LongBench v262%62%
MRCRv263%
AI-Needle68.3%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU66%
GPQA66%90.4%
MMLU-Pro64%88.5%
HLE1%28.8%
FrontierScience58%
SuperGPQA71.6%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval82%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU-ProX72%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202366%
AIME 202468%
AIME 202567%
HMMT Feb 202362%
HMMT Feb 202464%
BRUMO 202565%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

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

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 20% and 78.8%.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 43.6. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 30.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

GPT-4o has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 62. Qwen3.6 Plus stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 48.5. 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 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 70. Inside this category, VideoMMMU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GPT-4o or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 82. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

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.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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