# GPT-6 Astra vs Qwen3.8 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GPT-6 Astra and Qwen3.8 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gpt-6-astra-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 16
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-6 Astra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.8 Max only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- GPT-6 Astra leads overall 83.88 to 69.66.
- The clearest category separation is in coding, where the averages are 75.5 for GPT-6 Astra and 53.6 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is OSWorld 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 72.6% and 19.4%.
- Qwen3.8 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GPT-6 Astra also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1.05M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 83.88 | 69.66 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 40 | 66 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-6 Astra public-lane score: 74.8 (Supported · #7/128)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.5 (Supported · #14/128)

| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BrowseComp | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 72.6% | 19.4% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 57.90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 64.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 42.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 59.3% | 52.4% | GPT-6 Astra |
| AutomationBench | 41.4% | 27.3% | GPT-6 Astra |
| HLE w/ tools | 57.2% | 56.2% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 87.3% | 67.4% | GPT-6 Astra |
| ApprenticeBench | 68% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | 68.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | 56.3% | 36.2% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Hermes Bench | 73.7% | 70.5% | GPT-6 Astra |
| MazeBench | 23% | 0% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-6 Astra public-lane score: 75.5 (Supported · #4/150)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 53.6 (Supported · #34/150)

| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 74.1% | 56.6% | GPT-6 Astra |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 53.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 64.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 65.5% | 15.8% | GPT-6 Astra |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 44.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | 45.0 fixes | 25.7 fixes | GPT-6 Astra |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 67.7% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-6 Astra public-lane score: 93.3 (#1/28)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| STEMBench | 2.81 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 62.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GeneBench-Pro | 37.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCR v2 256K-512K | 100.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCR v2 512K-1M | 96.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GraphWalks BFS 256K–1M | 71.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 66.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-6 Astra public-lane score: 87.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 91.2 (#4/54)

| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ScreenSpot Pro | 92.7% | 84.5% | GPT-6 Astra |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.959 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 49.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 63.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: GPT-6 Astra
- GPT-6 Astra public-lane score: 86.2 (Supported · #3/184)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.2 (Supported · #24/184)

| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 96% | 92.6% | GPT-6 Astra |
| GPQA-D | 96.0% | 92.6% | GPT-6 Astra |
| HealthBench (raw) | 56.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 58.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 36.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-6 Astra public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 94.7 (#2/148)

| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 8.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-6 Astra public-lane score: 97.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 78.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 97.600% | 46.341% | GPT-6 Astra |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 93.684% | 74.737% | GPT-6 Astra |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GPT-6 Astra or Qwen3.8 Max?

GPT-6 Astra is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GPT-6 Astra and Qwen3.8 Max?

The widest category gap is in coding, where the averages are 75.5 for GPT-6 Astra and 53.6 for Qwen3.8 Max.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-6 Astra cover on BenchLM?

GPT-6 Astra currently has 40 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 66 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6 Sol](/compare/gpt-6-astra-vs-gpt-6-sol)
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