Qwen3.6 Plus vs Solar Pro 3
Qwen3.6 Plus leads Solar Pro 3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 27.0 to 7.8, and Solar Pro 3 costs 3.3x less per output token ($0.60 vs $1.95 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 8 benchmarks have a result for both.
Qwen3.6 Plus or Solar Pro 3: which to pick
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a coding score, 44.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Solar Pro 3 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Solar Pro 3 for output tokens 3.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.95 per million).
- Shared results
- 8
- Qwen3.6 Plus only
- 75
- Solar Pro 3 only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen3.6 Plus leads, 27.0 against 7.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Solar Pro 3 has a AA Agentic Index result, 1.4.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a GPQA Diamond result, 87.4%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a AIME result, 94.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a MMLU Pro result, 87.7%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a Design Arena: websites result, 1243.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen3.6 Plus takes 1M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Solar Pro 3
Qwen3.6 Plus $0.0013, Solar Pro 3 $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has the number, $1.19.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Qwen3.6 Plus 44.1 from 3 benchmarks, Solar Pro 3 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 37.3 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): Qwen3.6 Plus 78.3% against Solar Pro 3 32.3%, 46.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 against Solar Pro 3 $0.60 per million output tokens, 3.3x apart.
- Context window
- Qwen3.6 Plus takes 1M tokens, Solar Pro 3 131K.
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.
| Category | Qwen3.6 Plus | Bars | Solar Pro 3 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 8 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1461 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| AA Coding Index | 54.5 | 16.2 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 86.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 73.4% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 25.6% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 11.1% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 53.2% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 25.5% | Only Solar Pro 3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 43.9% | 7.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| ALE-Bench | 670.1 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1467 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1462 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1454 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1463 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1472 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 27.0 | 7.8 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 147.3 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 1.4 | Only Solar Pro 3 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 40.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 7.7% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 14.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 32.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 97.7% | 86.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,115 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.4% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 84.2% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 88.2% | 72.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 27.8% | 10.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 88.4% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Chess puzzles | 14.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 12.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1448 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1454 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1455 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 94.6% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 93.3% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 38.2% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1449 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1448 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.7% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 84.2% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 51.5% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 61.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.7% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 36.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 44.1% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1439 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1442 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1437 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1430 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1243 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1230 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1211 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1228 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1202 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1236 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1161 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1113 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 44.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 77.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 51.5% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| IFBench | 75.2% | 71.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 78.3% | 32.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| DTBench | 81.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMCA | 33.1% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| CL-bench | 20.3% | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text | 1436 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1424 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1404 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1445 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1424 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1477 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1451 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1390 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1379 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1455 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1432 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1434 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1433 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1438 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1439 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1418 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1402 | Not measured | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Solar Pro 3 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Solar Pro 3 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Solar Pro 3 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.
| Specification | Qwen3.6 Plus | Upstage Solar Pro 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Qwen | Upstage |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 2, 2026 | January 27, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.325 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.95 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | 44.1 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.19 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Qwen3.6 Plus better than Solar Pro 3 for coding?
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a coding score, 44.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Solar Pro 3 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Solar Pro 3 for output tokens 3.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.95 per million).
Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 Plus or Solar Pro 3?
Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 per million input tokens and $1.95 per million output tokens; Solar Pro 3 costs $0.15 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for Qwen3.6 Plus only.
Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3.6 Plus or Solar Pro 3?
Qwen3.6 Plus, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Qwen3.6 Plus vs Solar Pro 3 comparison based on?
8 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Qwen3.6 Plus's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Solar Pro 3's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.