Model comparison

GPT-6 Sol vs Qwen3.5 Plus

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 4.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6 Sol scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Sol leads 74.0 to 32.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Mystery Game Puzzles: 56% for GPT-6 Sol and 17% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6 Sol.
  • GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

GPT-6 Sol and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
GPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index61.842.9
Released2026-09-222026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$10$2.40
Results tracked4515

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
ALE-Bench2,462621.92
DeepSWE68.8%—
FrontierCode49.3%—
LMArena WebDev1688—
SciCode57.6%—
LMArena Coding1447—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 214,4280.54
APEX-Agents54.3%—
GDP.pdf26.4%—

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
Mystery Game Puzzles56%17%
DTBench97.3%80.5%
LMCA59.1%36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.72146.78
ARC-AGI-289.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)90.1%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt30.9%—
Chess Puzzles—22%
EBR-Bench53.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1418—

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 490%—
ProofBench83%—
LMArena Math1402—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond94.3%84.8%
SimpleQA Verified60.7%25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.5%10.7%
LMArena Expert1439—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision1245—
Blueprint-Bench 236.9%—
Furniture Assembly58.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1385—
LMArena Chinese1405—
LMArena French1410—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1385—
LMArena Korean1341—
LMArena Russian1401—
LMArena Spanish1384—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1412—

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1411—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1395—
LMArena Creative Writing1378—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2125—
LMArena Multi-Turn1412—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6 Sol better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 4.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Sol or Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Sol and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6 Sol has 45 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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