Nemotron Ultra 253B 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

Nemotron Ultra 253B· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron Ultra 253B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 41. 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 44.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 31% to 78.8%.

Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for Nemotron Ultra 253B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkNemotron Ultra 253BQwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.046%61.6%
BrowseComp50%
OSWorld-Verified45%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
HumanEval41%
SWE-bench Verified31%78.8%
LiveCodeBench30%
SWE-bench Pro38%56.6%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro37%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro54%
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
MuSR45%
BBH77%
LongBench v255%62%
MRCRv256%
AI-Needle68.3%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU49%
GPQA48%90.4%
SuperGPQA46%71.6%
MMLU-Pro63%88.5%
HLE11%28.8%
FrontierScience49%
SimpleQA47%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval78%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MGSM74%
MMLU-ProX68%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202349%
AIME 202451%
AIME 202550%
HMMT Feb 202345%
HMMT Feb 202447%
HMMT Feb 202546%
BRUMO 202548%
MATH-50074%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 31% and 78.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 42.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 33.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 52.7. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 46.7. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 44.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron Ultra 253B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 70.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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