Head-to-head comparison across 7 benchmark categories
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
55
Qwen3.6 Plus
69
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Agentic
+14.6 difference
Coding
+21.6 difference
Reasoning
+9.9 difference
Knowledge
+16.0 difference
Multilingual
+10.3 difference
Multimodal
+36.7 difference
Inst. Following
+6.5 difference
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
Qwen3.6 Plus
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128K
1M
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) 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 55. 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 42.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 16% to 78.8%.
Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning).
Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 16% and 78.8%.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 50. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 43.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 52.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 47.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 42.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 87.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 74.4. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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