GPT-5.4 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-5.4 mini· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-5.4 mini only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.

Qwen3.6 Plus finishes one point ahead overall, 69 to 68. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 62 against 40.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 41.5% to 28.8%. GPT-5.4 mini does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-5.4 mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.75 input / $4.50 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 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 400K for GPT-5.4 mini.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$0.75 / $4.50Free*
Speed201 t/sN/A
TTFT3.85sN/A
Context400K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniQwen3.6 Plus
AgenticGPT-5.4 mini wins
Terminal-Bench 2.060%61.6%
OSWorld-Verified72.1%62.5%
MCP Atlas57.7%48.2%
Toolathlon42.9%39.8%
Tau2-Telecom93.4%
Claw-Eval58.7%
QwenClawBench57.2%
QwenWebBench1502
TAU3-Bench70.7%
VITA-Bench44.3%
DeepPlanning41.5%
MCP-Tasks74.1%
WideResearch74.3%
CodingQwen3.6 Plus wins
SWE-bench Pro54.4%56.6%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro76.6%78.8%
MMMU-Pro w/ Python78%
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
MRCRv240.7%
MRCR v2 64K-128K47.7%
MRCR v2 128K-256K33.6%
Graphwalks BFS 128K76.3%
Graphwalks Parents 128K71.5%
AI-Needle68.3%
LongBench v262%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
GPQA88%90.4%
HLE41.5%28.8%
HLE w/o tools28.2%
SuperGPQA71.6%
MMLU-Pro88.5%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval87.4%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
MATH-50097.4%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (7)

Which is better, GPT-5.4 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 68. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 41.5% and 28.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-5.4 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 57.4. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-5.4 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 54.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GPT-5.4 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 40.7. GPT-5.4 mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-5.4 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GPT-5.4 mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 62. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GPT-5.4 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 76.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GPT-5.4 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 87.4. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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