# Qwen3.6 Plus vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6 Plus and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-plus-vs-reflection-beam-fp8
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 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

- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 leads overall 71 to 53.78.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 69.5 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 87.9 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is τ³-bench results in Agentic, with scores of 70.7% and 36.8%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Reflection AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 53.78 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 49 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 34.4 (Supported · #83/128)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | 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% | 36.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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% | 81.5% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| 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 |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 76.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #66/150)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.8% | 80.2% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | 65.9% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.8% | 78.1% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| 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 |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 43.0% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 48.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 74.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 85.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | 68.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 62% | 67.6% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 17.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 76.1 (#21/54)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | 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: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 53.3 (Supported · #66/184)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | 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 |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#47/148)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 89.8 (#28/148)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 75.8% | 80.7% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.5 (#6/12)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.3% | 98.0% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| 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

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.6 Plus or Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.6 Plus and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 69.5 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 87.9 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 cover on BenchLM?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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