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GPT-5 minivsQwen3.6-Plus
Qwen3.6-Plus leads 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Qwen3.6-Plus is 1.2x cheaper per token. Qwen3.6-Plus has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 3
Qwen3.6-Plus leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3.6-Plus
1.2x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3.6-Plus
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
95.3488% · —
OpenAI · Qwen
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Qwen3.6-Plus
Qwen · released 2026-04-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
5 shared · 3 only GPT-5 mini · 1 only Qwen3.6-Plus| Benchmark | GPT-5 mini | Qwen3.6-Plus | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 5 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 81.6% ↗ | 88.4% ↗epoch | -6.8 pt | Qwen3.6-Plus |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 46.7% ↗epoch | 38.2% ↗epoch | +8.5 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 86.7% ↗epoch | 93.3% ↗epoch | -6.6 pt | Qwen3.6-Plus |
| SimpleQA Verified | 21.6% ↗epoch | 44.1% ↗epoch | -22.5 pt | Qwen3.6-Plus |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 64.7% ↗epoch | 57.9% ↗epoch | +6.8 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| Only GPT-5 mini reports · 3 | ||||
| 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 | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6-Plus reports · 1 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1436.7 ↗ | — | — |
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-Plus 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-Plus | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 400K tokens | 1M tokens | Qwen3.6-Plus |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.25 ↗ | $0.276 ↗ | GPT-5 mini |
| Output price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $1.65 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Plus |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.025 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $2.25 | $1.93 | Qwen3.6-Plus |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | 2026-04-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 6 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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