Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Grok 4.3
79
Qwen3.6 Plus
73
Verified leaderboard positions: Grok 4.3 unranked · Qwen3.6 Plus #10
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Coding
+17.5 difference
Knowledge
+12.1 difference
Multimodal
+1.5 difference
Inst. Following
+6.5 difference
Grok 4.3
Qwen3.6 Plus
$1.25 / $2.5
$null / $null
209 t/s
N/A
12.36s
N/A
1M
1M
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Grok 4.3 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 79 to 73. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Grok 4.3 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 79 to 73. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 35% and 28.8%.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 53.9. 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 47.3. Grok 4.3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 78.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87.8 versus 81.3. Inside this category, IFBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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