# Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-5-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 40
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.5 leads overall 54.06 to 53.68.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 30.6 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 82.5 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is V* in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 67.0% and 96.9%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.6 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 54.06 | 53.68 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 48 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 30.8 (Estimated · #80/119)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 33.6 (Supported · #75/119)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 61.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 59.6% | 58.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| QwenClawBench | 52.3% | 57.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| τ³-bench results | 70.2% | 70.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| VITA-Bench | 23.3% | 44.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| DeepPlanning | 26.4% | 41.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Toolathlon | 43.5% | 39.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MCP Atlas | 42.3% | 48.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MCP-Tasks | 71.8% | 74.1% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| WideResearch | 76.4% | 74.3% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| CyberGym | 50.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 64.23% | 50.60% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| JobBench | 32.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 41.6 (Estimated · #60/144)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 41.7 (Supported · #59/144)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 78.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 84.8% | 87.1% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.1% | 56.6% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | 73.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| NL2Repo | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 73.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 64.4% | 62% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| AI-Needle | 74% | 68.3% | Claude Opus 4.5 |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 24.5 (#47/49)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 67.2 (#23/49)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 70.6% | 78.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MathVision | 74.3% | 88.0% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| CharXiv | 68.5% | 81.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | 84.0% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 45.7% | 68.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| V* | 67.0% | 96.9% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 49.4 (Estimated · #68/171)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 52.5 (Supported · #60/171)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87% | 90.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SuperGPQA | 70.6% | 71.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.5% | 88.5% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MMLU-Redux | 96.6% | 94.5% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| C-Eval | 92.2% | 93.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HLE | 30.8% | 28.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.5
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 96.5 (#2/16)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/16)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 85.7% | 84.7% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| NOVA-63 | 56.7% | 57.9% | Qwen3.6 Plus |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 30.6 (#115/125)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 82.5 (#48/125)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.9% | 94.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| IFBench | 58% | 75.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 57.9 (#6/7)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 62 (#5/7)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.1% | 95.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 92.9% | 96.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 93.3% | 94.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 85.3% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMAnswerBench | 84.0% | 83.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 20.690% | 26.207% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | 8.333% | Qwen3.6 Plus |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 30.6 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 82.5 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.5 currently has 45 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 48 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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