# Qwen3.6 Plus vs ZAYA1-74B-Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6 Plus and ZAYA1-74B-Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-plus-vs-zaya1-74b-preview
- Last updated: September 23, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.6

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-74B-Preview 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 55.22 to 45.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 62 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 51.6 for ZAYA1-74B-Preview.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 90.4% and 57.3%.
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.6 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Zyphra |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 55.22 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 48 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 33 (Supported · #60/105)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | 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 |
| τ²-bench Airline | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 43.7 (Supported · #52/135)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.8% | 53.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.1% | 65.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 60.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | 68.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 62% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 66.2 (#24/50)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | 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: 49.9 (Supported · #55/160)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 90.4% | 57.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SuperGPQA | 71.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 88.5% | 68.1% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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 | 57.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.7 (#4/12)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | 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)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | 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)
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: 51.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.3% | 76.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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 ZAYA1-74B-Preview?

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

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.6 Plus and ZAYA1-74B-Preview?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 62 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 51.6 for ZAYA1-74B-Preview.

### 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 ZAYA1-74B-Preview cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-74B-Preview currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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