Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 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

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 only becomes the better choice if 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 36. 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 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 35% to 78.8%.

Qwen3.6 Plus is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 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 64K for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context64K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1Qwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.035%61.6%
BrowseComp32%
OSWorld-Verified28%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
HumanEval54.8%
SWE-bench Pro40%56.6%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro35%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro36%
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
LongBench v239%62%
MRCRv238%
AI-Needle68.3%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU77.8%
FrontierScience53%
GPQA90.4%
SuperGPQA71.6%
MMLU-Pro88.5%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
HLE28.8%
Instruction Following
IFEval94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU-ProX42%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (7)

Which is better, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 35% and 78.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 53. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for coding, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 40. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 38.5. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 31.8. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 35.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 42. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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