Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.4

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 28.4 to 10.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Qwen3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.19 / $1.13 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.538.4
Released2025-04-142026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output33K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$1.13
Results tracked4713

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), Qwen3.6 Flash: 28.4 (#90)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
Chess Puzzles7%20%
Mystery Game Puzzles7%18%
DTBench68.8%77.1%
LMCA21.1%31%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01143.26
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench—35.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), Qwen3.6 Flash: 38.0 (#88)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%10.3%
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.2 (#90)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond65.8%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified12.7%15.9%
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1357—
LMArena German1349—
LMArena Japanese1291—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
IFEval90.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1332—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1341—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $1.13 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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