GPT-6 Sol vs Qwen3.6 Plus
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GPT-6 Sol vs Qwen3.6 Plus Comparison Table
Evals updated September 22, 2026Pricing updated September 22, 2026
| Property | GPT-6 Sol | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Sep 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.1M | 1.0M |
| Parameters | undisclosed | |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.325 | |
| Output $/1M | $1.95 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | ||
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | ||
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 80.7% | Not evaluated |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0065 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 8.15s | – |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 73.6% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 72.9 to 74.2 | – |
| Object Detection (high) | 75.2% ±0.9, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.1 to 75.9 | – |
| Counting (low) | 74.8% ±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 77.0 | – |
| Counting (high) | 76.1% ±3.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 78.4 | – |
| Identification (low) | 91.7% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 93.8 | – |
| Identification (high) | 92.7% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8 | – |
| OCR (low) | 91.7% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.3 to 92.1 | – |
| OCR (high) | 91.9% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.6 to 92.2 | – |
| Data Extraction (low) | 80.4% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.4 to 80.4 | – |
| Data Extraction (high) | 82.5% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.4 to 83.5 | – |
| Reasoning (low) | 72.2% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 70.9 to 74.2 | – |
| Reasoning (high) | 77.9% ±2.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.5 to 80.8 | – |
GPT-6 Sol vs Qwen3.6 Plus: Overview
GPT-6 Sol is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI, released on September 22, 2026 alongside GPT-6 Luna as an efficiency-oriented tier of the GPT-6 family that began with GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI states that Sol and Luna are trained with methods similar to those used for Astra, carrying the same work on professional tasks, factuality, coding, computer use, and alignment into models that run faster. Sol accepts text and image input and returns text output, and OpenAI documents a context window of roughly one million tokens together with a knowledge cutoff of April 20, 2026.
The model targets complex coding and agentic workflows and exposes a configurable reasoning effort setting with levels of none, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max, which trades latency and token consumption against answer quality. OpenAI reports results including 33.2% on AutomationBench at xhigh effort and 56.4% on Agents' Last Exam at max effort, while its reported DeepSWE and OSWorld 2.0 figures of 68.8% and 64.4% fall below those of the earlier GPT-5.6 Sol. Its vision behavior covers image understanding tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, document and chart interpretation, and text recognition.
Qwen3.6 Plus is a flagship model in Alibaba’s Qwen Plus series, designed for agentic workflows, coding, and multi-step reasoning. It supports a 1 million token context window and up to 65,536 output tokens, with built-in reasoning capabilities. The model is available as a hosted, proprietary API through Alibaba Cloud.
Compared to Qwen3.5, it improves reliability in multi-step execution and frontend code generation, with stronger performance on agentic coding tasks. It also supports document and image understanding, though its vision capabilities are more limited than dedicated Qwen-VL models. Qwen3.6 Plus is part of a broader Qwen ecosystem that includes both closed-source APIs and open-weight models.