# Qwen3 235B-A22B vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3 235B-A22B and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-235b-a22b-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3 235B-A22B 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

- Qwen3 235B-A22B leads overall 61 to 54.05.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 62.9% and 90.4%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 54.05 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 11 | 49 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 34.7 (Supported · #79/124)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v3 | 68.0% | 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 |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 39.8% | 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 40.1 (Supported · #64/148)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 35.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 37.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 74.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 76.1 (#21/54)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | 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 |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 53.3 (Supported · #66/181)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Redux | 89.2% | 94.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA | 62.9% | 90.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| C-Eval | 86.1% | 93.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMMLU | 79.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#45/128)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 83.2% | 94.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.5 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2024 | 40.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 24.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 38.246% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3 235B-A22B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3 235B-A22B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3 235B-A22B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 49 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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