Grok Code Fast 1 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 Code Fast 1· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok Code Fast 1 only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 56. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 78.8 against 50.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 40% to 78.8%. Grok Code Fast 1 does hit back in reasoning, 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 Code Fast 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. Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Grok Code Fast 1.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderxAIAlibaba
PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed172 t/sN/A
TTFT2.81sN/A
Context256K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGrok Code Fast 1Qwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.059%61.6%
BrowseComp57%
OSWorld-Verified51%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%
CodingQwen3.6 Plus wins
HumanEval60%
SWE-bench Verified70.8%78.8%
LiveCodeBench80%
SWE-bench Pro42%56.6%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro40%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro63%
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%
ReasoningGrok Code Fast 1 wins
MuSR59%
BBH75%
LongBench v264%62%
MRCRv266%
AI-Needle68.3%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU64%
GPQA63%90.4%
SuperGPQA61%71.6%
MMLU-Pro65%88.5%
HLE7%28.8%
FrontierScience57%
SimpleQA61%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval79%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MGSM75%
MMLU-ProX73%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202364%
AIME 202466%
AIME 202565%
HMMT Feb 202360%
HMMT Feb 202462%
HMMT Feb 202561%
BRUMO 202563%
MATH-50073%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 40% and 78.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 49. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 63.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.3 versus 62. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 55.7. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 50.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 79. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Grok Code Fast 1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 73.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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