Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.4
94
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
64
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.4 #4 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #13
Pick GPT-5.4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+25.5 difference
Coding
+9.2 difference
Knowledge
+32.3 difference
Multimodal
+5.9 difference
GPT-5.4
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$2.5 / $15
N/A
74 t/s
N/A
151.79s
N/A
1.05M
262K
Pick GPT-5.4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
GPT-5.4 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 94 to 64. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.4's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 92.8 against 60.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Toolathlon, 54.6% to 26.9%. 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-5.4 gives you the larger context window at 1.05M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
GPT-5.4 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 94 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Toolathlon, where the scores are 54.6% and 26.9%.
GPT-5.4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 92.8 versus 60.5. Inside this category, GPQA 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 57.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.4 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 51.5. Inside this category, Toolathlon is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.4 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.2 versus 75.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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