Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.2
80
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
66
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.2 unranked · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #23
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+3.7 difference
Coding
+2.2 difference
Knowledge
+31.9 difference
Multimodal
+4.2 difference
GPT-5.2
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$1.75 / $14
N/A
73 t/s
N/A
130.34s
N/A
400K
262K
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
GPT-5.2 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 80 to 66. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.2's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 92.4 against 60.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 80% to 73.4%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
GPT-5.2 gives you the larger context window at 400K, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
GPT-5.2 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 80 to 66. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 80% and 73.4%.
GPT-5.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 92.4 versus 60.5. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 64.7. Inside this category, AA-SciCode is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.2 versus 51.5. Inside this category, GDPval-AA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.3 versus 76.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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