o3-pro 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

o3-pro· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o3-pro only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

Qwen3.6 Plus has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 69 versus 67. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 64.9 against 49.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 81% to 62%. o3-pro does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for o3-pro.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed27 t/sN/A
TTFT84.93sN/A
Context200K1M

Decision framing

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Benchmarko3-proQwen3.6 Plus
Agentico3-pro wins
Terminal-Bench 2.069%61.6%
BrowseComp76%
OSWorld-Verified68%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
HumanEval80%
LiveCodeBench44%
SWE-bench Pro55%56.6%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro70%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro79%
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%
Reasoningo3-pro wins
MuSR84%
BBH89%
LongBench v281%62%
MRCRv281%
AI-Needle68.3%
Knowledgeo3-pro wins
MMLU88%
GPQA89%90.4%
SuperGPQA87%71.6%
HLE26%28.8%
FrontierScience77%
SimpleQA86%
MMLU-Pro88.5%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval82%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX80%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202390%
AIME 202492%
AIME 202591%
HMMT Feb 202386%
HMMT Feb 202488%
HMMT Feb 202587%
BRUMO 202589%
MATH-50089%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, o3-pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 67. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 81% and 62%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o3-pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

o3-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.8 versus 66. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o3-pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 49.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o3-pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

o3-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 62. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o3-pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

o3-pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.4 versus 62. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, o3-pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 74.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o3-pro 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, o3-pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 81.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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