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GPT-6 Solvs
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview
GPT-6 Sol leads 7 of 8 shared benchmarks. Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is 1.3x cheaper per token. GPT-6 Sol has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
7 – 1
GPT-6 Sol leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview
1.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-6 Sol
1.1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
OpenAI · Qwen
GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI · released 2026-09-22
textvision
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview
Qwen · released 2026-04-18
text
Quality
Benchmark matrix
8 shared · 19 only GPT-6 Sol · 9 only Qwen3.6-Max-Preview| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 8 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 94.3% ↗epoch run | 87.4% ↗epoch run | +6.9 pt | GPT-6 Sol |
| LMArena Elo | 1457.2 ↗ | 1460.3 ↗ | -3.1 | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1689 ↗ | 1481.5 ↗ | +207.5 | GPT-6 Sol |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 56% ↗epoch run | 19% ↗epoch run | +37 pt | GPT-6 Sol |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch run | 91.1% ↗epoch run | +8.9 pt | GPT-6 Sol |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 73.1% ↗ | 63% ↗ | +10.1 pt | GPT-6 Sol |
| SimpleQA Verified | 60.7% ↗epoch run | 52% ↗epoch run | +8.7 pt | GPT-6 Sol |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 14427.85 ↗ | 4254.19 ↗ | +10173.7 | GPT-6 Sol |
| Only GPT-6 Sol reports · 19 | ||||
| Agents' Last Exam V1 | 56.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 54.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AutomationBench 1.0.6 | 33.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 68.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 53.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 90% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 89.8% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 58.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 52.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 81.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 81.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 68.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 85.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 96.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 88.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.0971 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 (offline, partial) | 60.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 44.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 44.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6-Max-Preview reports · 9 | ||||
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 20% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| NL2Repo | not reported | 42.9% ↗ | — | — |
| QwenClawBench | not reported | 59% ↗ | — | — |
| SciCode | not reported | 47% ↗ | — | — |
| SkillsBench | not reported | 55.6% ↗ | — | — |
| SuperGPQA | not reported | 73.9% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | not reported | 57.3% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 76.7% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Terminus-2) | not reported | 65.4% ↗ | — | — |
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-6 Sol minus Qwen3.6-Max-Preview 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-6 Sol | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.1M tokens | 256K tokens | GPT-6 Sol |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $1.3 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $7.8 ↗ | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $9.1 | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | GPT-6 Sol |
| Released | 2026-09-22 | 2026-04-18 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 27 | 17 | — |
Reliability
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