Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.5
91
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
66
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.5 #5 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #24
Pick GPT-5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+30.0 difference
Coding
+8.3 difference
Knowledge
+5.9 difference
Multimodal
+5.7 difference
GPT-5.5
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$5 / $30
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1M
262K
Pick GPT-5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
GPT-5.5 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 91 to 66. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.5's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 81.5 against 51.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 52.2% to 21.4%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
GPT-5.5 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
GPT-5.5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 91 to 66. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 52.2% and 21.4%.
GPT-5.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 60.5. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Index is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 58.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 51.5. Inside this category, GDPval-AA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.1 versus 70.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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