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Qwen3.6 Plus benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Qwen3.6 Plus, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#49of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 45 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Qwen3.6 Plus

Artificial Analysis

Not measured by Artificial Analysis.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

#27of 34

Score 68.9. Best run: Qwen3.6 Plus.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#30of 79

Score 1444. Best run: qwen3.6-plus.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$1.13

Vercel AI Gateway: $0.50 in, $3.00 out LiveBench cost per solved task $0.227.

Nearby

The models either side of Qwen3.6 Plus

  1. #46GPT-5 Mini46
  2. #47Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview45
  3. #48GPT-5.4 Mini45
  4. #49Qwen3.6 Plus45
  5. #50gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-1444
  6. #51mistral-medium-250843
  7. #52Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite43

Questions about Qwen3.6 Plus

How good is Qwen3.6 Plus?
Qwen3.6 Plus ranks #49 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 45 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Qwen3.6 Plus better than GPT-5.4 Mini?
Not on the consensus: GPT-5.4 Mini scores 45 to Qwen3.6 Plus's 45. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Qwen3.6 Plus better than gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14?
On the consensus, yes: 45 to 44.
How much does Qwen3.6 Plus cost?
$0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens on Vercel AI Gateway, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $1.13 per million.

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