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GPT-4.1vsQwen3.6-Flash
Qwen3.6-Flash leads 3 of 4 shared benchmarks. Qwen3.6-Flash is 8.7x cheaper per token. GPT-4.1 has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 3
Qwen3.6-Flash leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3.6-Flash
8.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-4.1
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
95.4802% · —
OpenAI · Qwen
GPT-4.1
OpenAI · released 2025-04-14
textvision
Qwen3.6-Flash
Qwen · released 2026-04-16
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 5 only GPT-4.1 · 0 only Qwen3.6-Flash| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Qwen3.6-Flash | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 66.3% ↗ | 83.3% ↗epoch | -17 pt | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 6% ↗epoch | 17.2% ↗epoch | -11.2 pt | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 38.3% ↗epoch | 84.4% ↗epoch | -46.1 pt | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| SimpleQA Verified | 31.1% ↗epoch | 15.9% ↗epoch | +15.2 pt | GPT-4.1 |
| Only GPT-4.1 reports · 5 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 54.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU | 90.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | 48.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 48.5% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Video-MME (long, no subtitles) | 72% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6-Flash reports · 0 | ||||
| Qwen3.6-Flash reports nothing GPT-4.1 does not. | ||||
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-4.1 minus Qwen3.6-Flash in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-4.1 | Qwen3.6-Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 1M tokens | GPT-4.1 |
| Max output | 33K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $0.165 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Output price / 1M | $8 ↗ | $0.99 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $10 | $1.16 | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-04-14 | 2026-04-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 10 | 4 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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