# Qwen3.6 Plus vs Sakana Fugu

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-plus-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu 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

- Sakana Fugu leads overall 65 to 54.59.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 61.2 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 70.6 for Sakana Fugu.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is LiveCodeBench v6 in Coding, with scores of 87.1% and 92.9%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Sakana AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 54.59 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 48 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 33.2 (Supported · #60/105)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 43.3 (Supported · #51/135)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | 59% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.1% | 92.9% | Sakana Fugu |
| 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 61.2 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 70.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | 68.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 62% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 66.2 (#24/50)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | 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% | 85.1% | Sakana Fugu |
| V* | 96.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 52.1 (Supported · #53/158)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 90.4% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| 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 | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.7 (#4/12)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 82.5 (#50/124)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 62 (#5/7)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Sakana Fugu | 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) | 26.207% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 8.333% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.6 Plus or Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.6 Plus and Sakana Fugu?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 61.2 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 70.6 for Sakana Fugu.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 48 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Sakana Fugu cover on BenchLM?

Sakana Fugu currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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