GPT-5.4 nano 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 nano· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-5.4 nano only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 58. 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 reasoning, where it averages 62 against 38.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OSWorld-Verified, 39% to 62.5%.

GPT-5.4 nano is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.20 input / $1.25 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 nano.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$0.20 / $1.25Free*
Speed191 t/sN/A
TTFT3.64sN/A
Context400K1M

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGPT-5.4 nanoQwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.046.3%61.6%
OSWorld-Verified39%62.5%
MCP Atlas56.1%48.2%
Toolathlon35.5%39.8%
Tau2-Telecom92.5%
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 Pro52.4%56.6%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro66.1%78.8%
MMMU-Pro w/ Python69.5%
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
MRCRv238.7%
MRCR v2 64K-128K44.2%
MRCR v2 128K-256K33.1%
Graphwalks BFS 128K73.4%
Graphwalks Parents 128K50.8%
AI-Needle68.3%
LongBench v262%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
GPQA82.8%90.4%
HLE37.7%28.8%
HLE w/o tools24.3%
SuperGPQA71.6%
MMLU-Pro88.5%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction Following
IFEval94.3%
IFBench74.2%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

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

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OSWorld-Verified, where the scores are 39% and 62.5%.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 53.2. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 52.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 38.7. GPT-5.4 nano stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 42.9. 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 nano or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 66.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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