Model comparison

GPT-6.1 Sol vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#21); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI

42.1

Unranked Sparse

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.0

Rank #21 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.8 Max in 2 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 42.6 to 34.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DeepSWE: 75.2% for GPT-6.1 Sol and 57.5% for Qwen3.8 Max.
  • Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6.1 Sol.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

GPT-6.1 Sol and Qwen3.8 Max specifications
GPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.156.0
Released2026-09-292026-08-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2
Output $ / M tokens$10$6
Results tracked238

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-6.1 Sol: 51.4, Qwen3.8 Max: 52.3 (#30)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
DeepSWE75.2%57.5%
LMArena WebDev—1671
FrontierSWE—15.8%
SciCode—52.9%
LMArena Coding—1499

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3.8 Max leads

GPT-6.1 Sol: 34.3, Qwen3.8 Max: 42.6 (#17)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
GDP.pdf32%23.2%
τ²-bench Banking—55.1%

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 53.4 (#26)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
NYT Connections (extended)—88.3%
CritPt—20%
Chess Puzzles—40%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1493
Mystery Game Puzzles—38%
DTBench—92%
LMCA—46.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.69

Math Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 73.1 (#15)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—58%
LMArena Math—1498

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#25)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
GPQA Diamond—92.7%
SimpleQA Verified—47.3%
LMArena Expert—1504

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 36.9 (#70)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision—1314
Furniture Assembly—20%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 56.6 (#18)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English—1468
LMArena Chinese—1537
LMArena French—1502
LMArena German—1489
LMArena Japanese—1466
LMArena Korean—1467
LMArena Russian—1478
LMArena Spanish—1495

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 77.7 (#19)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following—1478

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.5 (#30)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query—1486

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 67.0 (#31)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text—1480
LMArena Creative Writing—1478
LMArena Multi-Turn—1487

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6.1 Sol better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#21); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-6.1 Sol or Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-6.1 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Is GPT-6.1 Sol or Qwen3.8 Max better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (51.4 vs 52.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6.1 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6.1 Sol and Qwen3.8 Max share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6.1 Sol has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 38.

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