# GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GPT-5.6 Sol and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gpt-5-6-sol-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol 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

- GPT-5.6 Sol leads overall 78.49 to 54.59.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 69.6 for GPT-5.6 Sol and 33.2 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) in Mathematics, with scores of 83.000% and 8.333%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GPT-5.6 Sol also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1.05M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 78.49 | 54.59 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 37 | 48 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $4.00 / $20.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 69.6 (Supported · #7/105)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 33.2 (Supported · #60/105)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 91.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 92.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 62.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 84.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 58% | 39.8% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 85.8% | 53.2% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| ApprenticeBench | 26% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 57.2% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 41.5% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 48.2% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.60% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 71.6 (Supported · #6/135)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 43.3 (Supported · #51/135)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Bug Hunt Bench | 42 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 64.6% | 56.6% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 91.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 32.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 67.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.6% | 86.0% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 96.2% | 73.4% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| cursorBench40 | 41.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 72.1 (#8/19)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 61.2 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 7.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GeneBench-Pro | 28.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 87.6 (#5/50)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 66.2 (#24/50)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 83% | 78.8% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 84.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 68.2% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 81.5% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: GPT-5.6 Sol
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 78.8 (Supported · #7/158)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 52.1 (Supported · #53/158)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 94.6% | 90.4% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| GPQA-D | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 54.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 82.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 60.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 33.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 95.2% | 87.4% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.1% | 87.7% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.7 (#4/12)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 87.7 (#28/124)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 82.5 (#50/124)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 96.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 62 (#5/7)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath (legacy) | 89% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 89.000% | 26.207% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 83.000% | 8.333% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GPT-5.6 Sol or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GPT-5.6 Sol is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GPT-5.6 Sol and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 69.6 for GPT-5.6 Sol and 33.2 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.6 Sol cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.6 Sol currently has 37 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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