head-to-head

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendoropenaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score71.126.9
Input Price$2.00/M$0.15/M
Output Price$12.00/M$1.00/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.430.1

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 140 134
Code Review 145 132
Code Completion 118 129
Code Refactoring 147 132
Bug Fixing 149 136
Unit Test Generation 132 124
Code Documentation 135 129
Regex Writing 124 122
CI/CD Pipelines 128 120
Frontend Component Design 130 125
Data Analysis 134 128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 137 126
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 117 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 129
Long-Document Summarization 147 134
Short-Form Summarization 116 125
Blog Post Writing 128 122

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

Related comparisons

Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

The Model Movers Report

One email every Friday, built from this site's own rankings: the current top five by benchmark score, every model released in the last seven days, and one note worked out from that week's numbers. You can unsubscribe from any issue with one click.