# Ling 3.0 Flash vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ling 3.0 Flash and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 14
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ling 3.0 Flash only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.6 Plus leads overall 61.49 to 52.2.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 73.7 for Ling 3.0 Flash and 62.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 65.5% and 48.2%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InclusionAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 52.2 | 61.49 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 22 | 48 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Ling 3.0 Flash
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #121/151)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 36.4 (Supported · #128/151)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MCP Atlas | 65.5% | 48.2% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| skillsBench | 44.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 73.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 73.6% | 74.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| BrowseComp | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 70.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 50.2% | 53.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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 |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.1% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.60% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 42.8 (Estimated · #126/183)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 47 (Supported · #92/183)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | 56.6% | Tie |
| SWE Multilingual | 72.4% | 73.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 82.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 84.0% | 86.0% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 65.2% | 73.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 66.3 (#22/48)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.8% | 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 69.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 59.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 45.9 (Supported · #112/181)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 54.7 (Supported · #63/181)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 85.0% | 90.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA-D | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 22.7% | 28.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 84.8% | 87.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 82.0% | 87.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.6 (#58/120)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.5 (#41/120)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 74.5% | 75.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.7 (#4/12)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 62.4 (#4/7)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 93.2% | 95.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.0% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| IMOAnswerBench | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 26.207% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 8.333% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Ling 3.0 Flash or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Ling 3.0 Flash and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 73.7 for Ling 3.0 Flash and 62.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does Ling 3.0 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Ling 3.0 Flash currently has 22 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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