# GPT-5.5 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GPT-5.5 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gpt-5-5-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- GPT-5.5 leads overall 73.27 to 48.34.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 73.3 for GPT-5.5 and 46.5 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 52.2% and 21.4%.
- GPT-5.5 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GPT-5.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 73.27 | 48.34 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $30.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 63.9 (Supported · #15/151)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 44.4 (Estimated · #102/151)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 82% | 51.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| CyberGym | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 78.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 75.3% | 62.8% | GPT-5.5 |
| Toolathlon | 55.6% | 26.9% | GPT-5.5 |
| τ²-bench results | 98% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 72.93% | 42.65% | GPT-5.5 |
| ResearchClawBench | 17.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 13.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 13.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 76.4% | Coming soon | 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 |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Supported · #8/183)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 47.3 (Estimated · #90/183)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 58.6% | 49.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 82.0% | 51.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| Vibe Code Bench | 69.85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 59.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 43.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 29.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 71.3 (#19/48)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 50.1 (#37/48)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 81.2% | 75.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 83.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 54.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.7% | 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 63.5 (#15/22)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 69 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCR v2 64K-128K | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCR v2 128K-256K | 87.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 73.3 (Supported · #7/181)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 46.5 (Estimated · #109/181)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.6% | 86% | GPT-5.5 |
| GPQA-D | 93.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 52.2% | 21.4% | GPT-5.5 |
| HLE w/o tools | 41.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 92.9 (#7/120)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78 (#55/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 69.6 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 71.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath (legacy) | 51.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 51.700% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 35.400% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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

### Which is better overall, GPT-5.5 or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

GPT-5.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GPT-5.5 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 73.3 for GPT-5.5 and 46.5 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.5 cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.5 currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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