Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Grok 3 Mini
~49
0/8 categoriesQwen3.6 Plus
69
Winner · 2/8 categoriesGrok 3 Mini· Qwen3.6 Plus
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini 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 49. 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 coding, where it averages 64.9 against 41.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 66.2% to 90.4%.
Grok 3 Mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $0.50 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 128K for Grok 3 Mini.
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| Benchmark | Grok 3 Mini | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 61.6% |
| Claw-Eval | — | 58.7% |
| QwenClawBench | — | 57.2% |
| QwenWebBench | — | 1502 |
| TAU3-Bench | — | 70.7% |
| VITA-Bench | — | 44.3% |
| DeepPlanning | — | 41.5% |
| Toolathlon | — | 39.8% |
| MCP Atlas | — | 48.2% |
| MCP-Tasks | — | 74.1% |
| WideResearch | — | 74.3% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 62.5% |
| CodingQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 41.5% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 78.8% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 56.6% |
| SWE Multilingual | — | 73.8% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 87.1% |
| NL2Repo | — | 37.9% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU | — | 86.0% |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| RealWorldQA | — | 85.4% |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | — | 91.2% |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | — | 87.8% |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | — | 84.2% |
| MathVision | — | 88.0% |
| We-Math | — | 89.0% |
| DynaMath | — | 88.0% |
| MStar | — | 83.3% |
| SimpleVQA | — | 67.3% |
| ChatCVQA | — | 81.5% |
| MMLongBench-Doc | — | 62.0% |
| CC-OCR | — | 83.4% |
| AI2D_TEST | — | 94.4% |
| CountBench | — | 97.6% |
| RefCOCO (avg) | — | 93.5% |
| ODINW13 | — | 51.8% |
| ERQA | — | 65.7% |
| VideoMMMU | — | 84.0% |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | — | 86.7% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | — | 68.2% |
| Reasoning | ||
| AI-Needle | — | 68.3% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 62% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| GPQA | 66.2% | 90.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.9% | 88.5% |
| SimpleQA | 21.7% | — |
| SuperGPQA | — | 71.6% |
| MMLU-Redux | — | 94.5% |
| C-Eval | — | 93.3% |
| HLE | — | 28.8% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 94.3% |
| IFBench | — | 74.2% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | — | 84.7% |
| NOVA-63 | — | 57.9% |
| INCLUDE | — | 85.1% |
| PolyMath | — | 77.4% |
| VWT2k-lite | — | 84.3% |
| MAXIFE | — | 88.2% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2024 | 95.8% | — |
| AIME26 | — | 95.3% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 96.7% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 94.6% |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | — | 87.8% |
| MMAnswerBench | — | 83.8% |
Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 66.2% and 90.4%.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 59.8. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 41.5. Grok 3 Mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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