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Qwen3.6 Plus

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Strongest in Academic knowledge (#24 of 123), weakest in Core abilities (#187 of 204). Above par in 9 of 22 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.7 and ahead of Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Knowledge56.7#27/138
Academic knowledge58.1#24/123
Human preference61.2#70/342
Human preference61.2#70/342
Agents52.9#87/268
Knowledge work54.4#58/178
Reasoning48.3#99/178
Science57.9#38/122
Mathematics49.7#80/140
Reasoning39#116/140
Professional48.2#101/168
Finance53.2#67/151
Medical46.3#104/140
Legal44#108/151
Coding44.5#118/165
Code generation51.6#41/77
Agentic coding42.4#126/157
Core abilities40#187/204
Language41.9#42/57
Data analysis44.1#46/57
Instruction following33.1#52/57
General intelligence40.5#171/204

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Qwen3.6 Plus, left for the other.

GPT-4o Miniwon 17 · lost 1
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 16 · lost 2
Mistral Medium 3.5won 15 · lost 2
Mimo V2.5won 13 · lost 2
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 12 · lost 2
Grok 4.3won 18 · lost 4
Qwen3.6 27Bwon 13 · lost 3
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 11 · lost 3
GPT-5.4 Miniwon 16 · lost 5
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 12 · lost 4
Command Awon 12 · lost 4
GPT-4owon 11 · lost 4
MiniMax M2.7won 11 · lost 4
Mistral Large 3won 13 · lost 5
Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 12 · lost 5
GPT-5.4 Nanowon 15 · lost 7
GPT OSS 20Bwon 10 · lost 5
GPT-5 Nanowon 10 · lost 5
GPT OSS 120Bwon 12 · lost 6
O3 Miniwon 11 · lost 6
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 10 · lost 6
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 9 · lost 6
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 13 · lost 9
DeepSeek V3won 11 · lost 8
Grok 4.20won 8 · lost 6
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 8 · lost 6
Nemotron 3 Ultrawon 9 · lost 7
Inkling Smallwon 9 · lost 7
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 10 · lost 8
Claude Haiku 4.5won 10 · lost 8
Inklingwon 12 · lost 10
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 8 · lost 7
Qwen3 Maxwon 8 · lost 7
GLM-4.6won 9 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4won 9 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 4won 10 · lost 9
Grok 3won 7 · lost 7
Grok 4 Fastwon 8 · lost 8
GLM-4.7won 8 · lost 8
GPT-5 Miniwon 9 · lost 9
DeepSeek R1won 9 · lost 9
GPT-4.1won 8 · lost 9
Kimi K2won 8 · lost 9
Gemma 4 31Bwon 7 · lost 8
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 10 · lost 12
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 8 · lost 10
DeepSeek V3.2won 8 · lost 10
MiniMax M2.1won 6 · lost 8
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 7 · lost 10
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 7 · lost 10
MiniMax M3won 9 · lost 13
GPT-5won 7 · lost 11
Kimi K2.5won 7 · lost 11
MiniMax M2.5won 6 · lost 10
O1won 5 · lost 9
O4 Miniwon 6 · lost 12
O3won 6 · lost 12
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 7 · lost 15
Grok 3 Miniwon 5 · lost 11
GPT-5.1won 5 · lost 11
Grok 4won 5 · lost 12
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 4 · lost 10
Kimi K2.6won 6 · lost 16
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 6 · lost 16
Muse Sparkwon 4 · lost 11
GPT-6 Lunawon 5 · lost 14
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 14
GLM-5won 4 · lost 12
GLM-5.1won 4 · lost 12
GPT-5.2won 5 · lost 16
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 4 · lost 14
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 4 · lost 18
Grok 4.7won 3 · lost 16
Claude Opus 4.5won 3 · lost 18
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 3 · lost 19
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 3 · lost 19
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 3 · lost 19
GPT-5.4won 3 · lost 19
GLM-5.2won 3 · lost 19
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 3 · lost 19
GLM-5.3won 3 · lost 19
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 3 · lost 19
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 3 · lost 19
Muse Spark 1.1won 3 · lost 19
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 2 · lost 19
Claude Sonnet 5won 2 · lost 20
Grok 4.5won 2 · lost 20
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 2 · lost 20
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 2 · lost 20
Gemini 3 Flashwon 1 · lost 13
GPT-6 Solwon 1 · lost 18
Muse Spark 1.2won 1 · lost 20
Grok 4.6won 1 · lost 21
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 21
Claude Opus 4.8won 1 · lost 21
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 1 · lost 21
Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 17
Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 18
GPT-6 Astrawon 0 · lost 19
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 19
Claude Opus 4.6won 0 · lost 20
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 22
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 22
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 22
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 22
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 22
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 22
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 22

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

4 publications, 26 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LMArena Text 1443
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
GDPval-AA 976
LiveBench ↗8 measuresread 2026-09-26
LiveBench 68.9LiveBench · Reasoning 75.8LiveBench · Coding 78.2LiveBench · Agentic Coding 41.4LiveBench · Mathematics 83.7LiveBench · Data Analysis 69.9LiveBench · Language 75LiveBench · Instruction Following 58.3
Vals.ai ↗16 measuresread 2026-09-26
Vals · Legal Research Bench 14.9%Vals · CaseLaw 51.45%Vals · LegalBench 84.23%Vals · Harvey Legal Agent Benchmark 1.25%Vals · Finance Agent 40.85%Vals · CorpFin 61.93%Vals · TaxEval 74.73%Vals · MortgageTax 67.97%Vals · MedCode 36.89%Vals · MedScribe 76.96%Vals · SWE-bench Verified 73.4% (Mini-SWE-agent)Vals · Vibe Code Bench 25.57% (OpenHands)Vals · Code Migration 11.1%Vals · GPQA Diamond 87.37%Vals · MMLU Pro 87.67%Vals · AIME 94.58%

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