# Qwen3.6 Plus vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6 Plus and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-plus-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Qwen3.6 Plus and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.6 Plus has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 54.05 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 49 | 3 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 34.7 (Supported · #79/124)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 58.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 57.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 44.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 41.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 39.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 48.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 74.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 50.60% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 18.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 53.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 40.1 (Supported · #64/148)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.8% | 69.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.8% | 54.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 37.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 25.56% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 74.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | 68.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 62% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 76.1 (#21/54)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 88.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 81.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 96.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 53.3 (Supported · #66/181)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 71.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 88.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 28.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#45/128)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.5 (#6/12)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 96.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 83.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 38.246% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Qwen3.6 Plus and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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