Head-to-head comparison across 5benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.2
81
Qwen3.6 Plus
73
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.2 unranked · Qwen3.6 Plus #10
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
Agentic
+6.4 difference
Coding
+0.1 difference
Reasoning
+9.1 difference
Knowledge
+26.4 difference
Multimodal
+0.7 difference
GPT-5.2
Qwen3.6 Plus
$1.75 / $14
$null / $null
73 t/s
N/A
130.34s
N/A
400K
1M
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
GPT-5.2 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 81 to 73. 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 66. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 92.4% to 90.4%. Qwen3.6 Plus does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 400K for GPT-5.2.
GPT-5.2 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 81 to 73. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 92.4% and 90.4%.
GPT-5.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 92.4 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 64.7. Inside this category, Vibe Code Bench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 52.9. GPT-5.2 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.6 versus 55.2. GPT-5.2 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
GPT-5.2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.3 versus 79.6. Inside this category, V* is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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