Grok 4 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Grok 4· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.6 Plus finishes one point ahead overall, 69 to 68. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 94.3 against 82. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 16% to 28.8%. Grok 4 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.6 Plus is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 4 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. Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Grok 4.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderxAIAlibaba
PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed54 t/sN/A
TTFT15.60sN/A
Context128K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.057%61.6%
BrowseComp63%
OSWorld-Verified56%62.5%
Claw-Eval58.7%
QwenClawBench57.2%
QwenWebBench1502
TAU3-Bench70.7%
VITA-Bench44.3%
DeepPlanning41.5%
Toolathlon39.8%
MCP Atlas48.2%
MCP-Tasks74.1%
WideResearch74.3%
CodingGrok 4 wins
HumanEval79%
SWE-bench Verified73%78.8%
LiveCodeBench79.4%
SWE-bench Pro48%56.6%
React Native Evals70.1%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro80%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro76%
MMMU86.0%
RealWorldQA85.4%
OmniDocBench 1.591.2%
Video-MME (with subtitle)87.8%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)84.2%
MathVision88.0%
We-Math89.0%
DynaMath88.0%
MStar83.3%
SimpleVQA67.3%
ChatCVQA81.5%
MMLongBench-Doc62.0%
CC-OCR83.4%
AI2D_TEST94.4%
CountBench97.6%
RefCOCO (avg)93.5%
ODINW1351.8%
ERQA65.7%
VideoMMMU84.0%
MLVU (M-Avg)86.7%
ScreenSpot Pro68.2%
ReasoningQwen3.6 Plus wins
MuSR81%
BBH83%
LongBench v272%62%
MRCRv271%
ARC-AGI-216%
AI-Needle68.3%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU87%
GPQA86%90.4%
SuperGPQA84%71.6%
MMLU-Pro77%88.5%
HLE16%28.8%
FrontierScience75%
SimpleQA83%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval82%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX79%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202387%
AIME 202489%
AIME 202588%
HMMT Feb 202384%
HMMT Feb 202486%
HMMT Feb 202585%
BRUMO 202587%
MATH-50083%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 68. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 16% and 28.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 65.3. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Grok 4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 65.8 versus 64.9. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 59.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 58.1. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 78.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 82. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 80.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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