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Grok 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Grok 4.6 leads Qwen3.6 Plus on coding, 65.7 to 44.1 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.6 Plus costs 3.1x less per output token ($1.95 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 75 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Grok 4.6 Replace Qwen3.6 Plus
Grok 4.6xAI
Coding
65.7
Overall
67.4
Output $/M
$6.00
53
Qwen3.6 PlusQwen
Coding
44.1
Overall
56.2
Output $/M
$1.95
22
vs boards won of 75 shared

Grok 4.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus: which to pick

Pick Grok 4.6 for coding: it scores 65.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 3.1x cheaper ($1.95 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1M against 500K tokens).

Model AGrok 4.6xAI65.7/1006 independent benchmarks$0.82 per solved taskModel BQwen3.6 PlusQwen44.1/1003 independent benchmarks$1.19 per solved task
Shared results
75
Grok 4.6 only
48
Qwen3.6 Plus only
8
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Grok 4.6 65.7 from 6 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 Plus 44.1 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 25.2 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Grok 4.6 76.2% against Qwen3.6 Plus 25.6%, 50.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Grok 4.6 $6.00 against Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 per million output tokens, 3.1x apart.
Context window
Grok 4.6 takes 500K tokens, Qwen3.6 Plus 1M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGrok 4.6BarsQwen3.6 PlusTies
Coding122
Intelligence20
Agentic work50
Reasoning72
Math31
Knowledge56
Web design80
General1111
All shared boards5322
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index122
Coding benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
LiveBench coding89.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev16171461Grok 4.6
AA Coding Index76.854.5Grok 4.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)88.2%86.0%Grok 4.6
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)95.6%73.4%Grok 4.6
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)76.2%25.6%Grok 4.6
Code migration (Vals AI)44.6%11.1%Grok 4.6
ProgramBench (Vals AI)1.0%0.0%Grok 4.6
IOI (Vals AI)47.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)78.3%53.2%Grok 4.6
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)14.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)55.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)67.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
SciCode56.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured43.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
FrontierCode48.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
FrontierSWE25.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
WeirdML67.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
ALE-Bench1508.1670.1Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: coding14661467Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: software and IT14571462Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena WebDev: React16311454Grok 4.6
LMArena WebDev: HTML15971463Grok 4.6
LMArena WebDev: from an image16031472Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index44.327.0Grok 4.6
Epoch Capabilities Index156.6147.3Grok 4.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Agentic work benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Agentic Index53.0Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps1248Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1264Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1234Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1291Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1276Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1209Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1250Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1237Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench research84.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench browser64.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench long agentic40.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)53.7%40.9%Grok 4.6
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.1%7.7%Grok 4.6
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)48.1%14.9%Grok 4.6
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)62.7%32.9%Grok 4.6
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)72.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)11.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vals Science Index38.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)5.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured97.7%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
APEX-Agents65.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$9,047$5,115Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index72
Reasoning benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond94.7%87.4%Grok 4.6
LiveBench reasoning91.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)30.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured84.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)94.9%88.2%Grok 4.6
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)44.1%27.8%Grok 4.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)94.0%88.4%Grok 4.6
ARC-AGI87.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
ARC-AGI-267.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
SimpleBench75.9%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Chess puzzles33.0%14.0%Grok 4.6
Mystery game puzzles34.0%12.0%Grok 4.6
EBR-bench30.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14481448Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: expert14691454Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14451455Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision: diagrams1285Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: homework1283Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31
Math benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AIMENot measured94.6%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
OTIS Mock AIME99.2%93.3%Grok 4.6
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 366.0%38.2%Grok 4.6
FrontierMath, tier 431.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
ProofBench51.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: math14171449Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: mathematical work14641448Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index56
Knowledge benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro89.4%87.7%Grok 4.6
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.3%84.2%Grok 4.6
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.2%61.9%Grok 4.6
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.1%74.7%Qwen3.6 Plus
MortgageTax (Vals AI)64.2%68.0%Qwen3.6 Plus
MedCode (Vals AI)44.7%36.9%Grok 4.6
SimpleQA Verified49.3%44.1%Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: science14371439Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14201442Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: legal and government14291437Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: business and finance14161430Qwen3.6 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Web design benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites12891243Grok 4.6
Design Arena: UI components12941230Grok 4.6
Design Arena: game dev12961211Grok 4.6
Design Arena: data viz12821228Grok 4.6
Design Arena: 3D12771202Grok 4.6
Design Arena: all code categories12921236Grok 4.6
Design Arena: SVG12401161Grok 4.6
Design Arena: ASCII art12791113Grok 4.6
LiveBench design79.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1111
General benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
LiveBench data analysis75.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)66.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)28.9%44.9%Qwen3.6 Plus
MedScribe (Vals AI)86.5%77.0%Grok 4.6
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
IFBenchNot measured75.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)81.0%78.3%Grok 4.6
DTBench97.3%81.9%Grok 4.6
LMCA48.5%33.1%Grok 4.6
CL-benchNot measured20.3%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Furniture assembly40.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text14291436Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: instruction following14311424Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: creative writing14261404Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision1263Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: English14331445Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: non-English14201424Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Chinese14761477Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: German14261451Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Japanese13781390Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Korean13911379Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: French14551455Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Spanish14141432Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Russian14211434Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Polish14301433Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: multi-turn14251438Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: longer queries14561439Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: writing and language14291418Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14211402Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: English1270Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1289Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1272Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: humor1270Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1262Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Document1452Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Grok 4.6$0.0050Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.0013Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Grok 4.6$0.118Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.022Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Grok 4.6$0.460Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.085Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
SpecificationSpaceXAI Grok 4.6Qwen3.6 Plus
MakerxAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedAugust 12, 2026April 2, 2026
Context window500K1M
Input $/Mtok$2.00$0.325
Output $/Mtok$6.00$1.95
Coding index65.744.1
Independent measurements behind it63
Cost per solved task$0.82$1.19
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?

Pick Grok 4.6 for coding: it scores 65.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus. Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 3.1x cheaper ($1.95 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1M against 500K tokens).

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Grok 4.6 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 and $1.95. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Grok 4.6 costs $0.82 and Qwen3.6 Plus $1.19.

Which has the bigger context window, Grok 4.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus, with 1M tokens against 500K.

How many benchmarks is the Grok 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus comparison based on?

75 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Grok 4.6's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 Plus's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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