# o1 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 51.8 to 36.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 14.7% for o1 and 38.2% for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- Qwen3.6 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | 47.5 |
| Rank | 143 | 62 |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $15 | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | $60 | $3 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- o1: 46.1 (#70)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1467 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 57.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.7% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1461 |
| SciCode | — | 40.7% |
| WeirdML | 47.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 69.7% | — |
| CadEval | 56% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 670.15 |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 80.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1: 24.6 (#117)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: —

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 51.1% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,115 |

## Reasoning

- o1: 27.9 (#111)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 15% | 17% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1371 | 1449 |
| DTBench | 74.7% | 81.9% |
| LMCA | 22.3% | 33.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.91 | 147.65 |
| SimpleBench | 41.7% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 60.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 30.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 2.9% |
| EnigmaEval | 5.7% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 59.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 91.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| LiveBench | 75.7% | — |

## Math

- o1: 36.1 (#175)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 14.7% | 38.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.3% | 93.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1388 | 1450 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 9.3% | 26.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 80.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 94.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 8.3% |

## Knowledge

- o1: 41.5 (#110)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.8% | 88.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41.1% | 44.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1361 | 1454 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| Confabulations | 11.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- o1: 34.2 (#93)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: —

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1168 | — |
| GeoBench | 80% | — |
| VPCT | 37% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 41.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- o1: 48.6 (#142)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1424 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1394 | 1477 |
| LMArena French | 1344 | 1455 |
| LMArena German | 1337 | 1452 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1346 | 1389 |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | 1379 |
| LMArena Russian | 1356 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1345 | 1432 |

## Instruction Following

- o1: 74.8 (#86)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1367 | 1425 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- o1: 50.3 (#9)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1378 | 1439 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 20.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- o1: 55.6 (#144)
- Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

| Benchmark | o1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1366 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1348 | 1404 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1369 | 1438 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 70.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 65.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1 better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, o1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

### Is o1 or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do o1 and Qwen3.6 Plus share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.