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GPT-5 minivsQwen3.6-Flash
GPT-5 mini leads 3 of 4 shared benchmarks. Qwen3.6-Flash is 1.9x cheaper per token. Qwen3.6-Flash has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
3 – 1
GPT-5 mini leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3.6-Flash
1.9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3.6-Flash
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
94.2446% · —
OpenAI · Qwen
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Qwen3.6-Flash
Qwen · released 2026-04-16
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 4 only GPT-5 mini · 0 only Qwen3.6-Flash| Benchmark | GPT-5 mini | Qwen3.6-Flash | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 81.6% ↗ | 83.3% ↗epoch | -1.7 pt | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 46.7% ↗epoch | 17.2% ↗epoch | +29.5 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 86.7% ↗epoch | 84.4% ↗epoch | +2.3 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| SimpleQA Verified | 21.6% ↗epoch | 15.9% ↗epoch | +5.7 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| Only GPT-5 mini reports · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 71% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 87.5% ↗matharena ⚠ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 12.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 64.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6-Flash reports · 0 | ||||
| Qwen3.6-Flash reports nothing GPT-5 mini 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-5 mini 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-5 mini | Qwen3.6-Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 400K tokens | 1M tokens | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.25 ↗ | $0.165 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Output price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $0.99 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.025 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $2.25 | $1.16 | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | 2026-04-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 4 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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