Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.4 mini
68
Qwen3.6 Plus
65
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.4 mini unranked · Qwen3.6 Plus #16
Pick GPT-5.4 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
Agentic
+4.0 difference
Knowledge
+8.6 difference
Multimodal
+3.0 difference
GPT-5.4 mini
Qwen3.6 Plus
$0.75 / $4.5
$null / $null
201 t/s
N/A
3.85s
N/A
400K
1M
Pick GPT-5.4 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
GPT-5.4 mini has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 68 versus 65. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
GPT-5.4 mini's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 65.6 against 61.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 41.5% to 28.8%. Qwen3.6 Plus does hit back in knowledge, 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-5.4 mini.
GPT-5.4 mini is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 68 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 41.5% and 28.8%.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 57.4. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.4 mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 61.6. Inside this category, GDPval-AA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 76.6. Inside this category, AA-MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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