# GPT-4.1 mini vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gpt-4-1-mini-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- GPT-4.1 mini has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 29.22 | 43.54 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 42 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.40 / $1.60 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 29.2 (Estimated · #90/124)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 51.5% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1397 | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 35.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 25.9% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 26.9% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 42.65% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 mini public-lane score: 16.6 (Estimated · #130/149)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 31.8 (Estimated · #89/149)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 23.6% | 73.4% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 49.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 51.5% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 29.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 mini public-lane score: 56.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 75.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 mini public-lane score: 51 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 66.4 (#40/54)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 58.9% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.0% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 mini public-lane score: 31.6 (Supported · #147/181)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 42.9 (Estimated · #105/181)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 87.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 64.2% | 86% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 21.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 mini public-lane score: 44.2 (#96/128)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78.3 (#58/128)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 88.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 mini public-lane score: 27 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 58.4 (#10/12)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 6.667% | 20.351% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

## Related Comparisons

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