Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.4
89
Qwen3.6 Plus
73
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.4 #14 · Qwen3.6 Plus #12
Pick GPT-5.4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+15.4 difference
Coding
+7.1 difference
Knowledge
+0.1 difference
Multimodal
+6.9 difference
GPT-5.4
Qwen3.6 Plus
$2.5 / $15
$null / $null
74 t/s
N/A
151.79s
N/A
1.05M
1M
Pick GPT-5.4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
GPT-5.4 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 89 to 73. 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 agentic, where it averages 77 against 61.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 52.1% to 28.8%. Qwen3.6 Plus 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 1M for Qwen3.6 Plus.
GPT-5.4 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 89 to 73. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 52.1% and 28.8%.
GPT-5.4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.1 versus 66. Inside this category, HLE 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 57.7. Inside this category, Vibe Code Bench 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 61.6. Inside this category, MCP Atlas 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 72.7. Inside this category, ScreenSpot Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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