Noometry

Model comparison

o1-mini vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

o1-mini OpenAI

33.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

37.2

Rank #194 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 27.2 to 8.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 46.9% for o1-mini and 86.7% for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.737.2
Released2024-09-122026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked3914

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 35.1 (#218), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 36.7 (#190)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
WeirdML36.3%34.5%
Aider Polyglot32.9%—
SciCode—35.8%
LiveBench Coding48%—
LMArena Coding1362—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+78.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 24.3 (#112), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 21.9 (#126)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench—23%
Cybench10%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 8.9 (#340), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 27.2 (#112)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
Epoch Capabilities Index135.82143.92
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench18.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)—41.6%
ARC-AGI-114%—
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LiveBench Reasoning72.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
Mystery Game Puzzles—22%
DTBench—73.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA—29.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—44.4%
LiveBench57.8%—

Math Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 33.7 (#168), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.9 (#90)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202546.9%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20.4%
LiveBench Math62%—
LMArena Math1358—
MATH Level 589.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 34.8 (#180), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.4 (#63)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond62.4%84.8%
Confabulations18.6%—
LMArena Expert1316—

Multilingual Not comparable

o1-mini: 43.8 (#177), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English1289—
LMArena Chinese1314—
LMArena French1292—
LMArena German1278—
LMArena Japanese1245—
LMArena Korean1223—
LMArena Russian1283—
LMArena Spanish1302—

Instruction Following Not comparable

o1-mini: 67.0 (#200), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LiveBench Instruction Following65.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1304—

Long Context Not comparable

o1-mini: 40.1 (#156), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query1321—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

o1-mini: 48.6 (#196), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Text1317—
LMArena Creative Writing1244—
Short-Story Creative Writing64.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1314—
LiveBench Language40.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1-mini better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1-mini or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.

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