Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Grok 4.1
91
Winner · 3/8 categoriesQwen3.6 Plus
69
0/8 categoriesGrok 4.1· Qwen3.6 Plus
Pick Grok 4.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Grok 4.1 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 91 to 69. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Grok 4.1's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 93 against 62. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SuperGPQA, 95% to 71.6%.
Grok 4.1 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 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 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 4.1 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.
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| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticGrok 4.1 wins | ||
| BrowseComp | 84% | — |
| 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% |
| Coding | ||
| 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% |
| ReasoningGrok 4.1 wins | ||
| MuSR | 93% | — |
| AI-Needle | — | 68.3% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 62% |
| KnowledgeGrok 4.1 wins | ||
| MMLU | 99% | — |
| GPQA | 97% | 90.4% |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 71.6% |
| FrontierScience | 91% | — |
| SimpleQA | 95% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 88.5% |
| 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 2023 | 99% | — |
| AIME 2024 | 99% | — |
| AIME 2025 | 98% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | 95% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 97% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 96% | — |
| BRUMO 2025 | 96% | — |
| AIME26 | — | 95.3% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 96.7% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 94.6% |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | — | 87.8% |
| MMAnswerBench | — | 83.8% |
Grok 4.1 is ahead overall, 91 to 69. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SuperGPQA, where the scores are 95% and 71.6%.
Grok 4.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.1 versus 66. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 62. Qwen3.6 Plus stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Grok 4.1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 62. Qwen3.6 Plus stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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