o3-minivsQwen3.6-Plus
o3-mini | Qwen3.6-Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins · base tier | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | $1.10 | $0.50 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | $4.40 | $3.00 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | $0.55 | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 49.3% | 78.8% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
BullshitBench v2Nonsense detection — Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 72% |
Humanity's Last Exam · with toolsMultidisciplinary reasoning — Humanity's Last Exam — extremely hard expert questions across many subjects. “With tools” means the AI is allowed to search the web or run code while answering. Higher is better. | — | 28.8% |
| Overview | ||
| Company | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Release date | Jan 31 2025 | Apr 2 2026 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Qwen3.6-Plus leads o3-mini on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). Qwen3.6-Plus is cheaper on both input and output: $0.50 vs $1.10 per million input tokens, and $3.00 vs $4.40 per million output tokens. Figures are base-tier rates. o3-mini shipped 426 days before Qwen3.6-Plus, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
On SWE-Bench Verified, Qwen3.6-Plus leads at 78.8% vs o3-mini at 49.3%.
o3-mini was released by OpenAI on Jan 31 2025.
Qwen3.6-Plus was released by Qwen on Apr 2 2026.
Qwen3.6-Plus leads on SWE-Bench Verified — o3-mini 49.3% vs Qwen3.6-Plus 78.8%.
Qwen3.6-Plus is cheaper on both input and output: $0.50 vs $1.10 per million input tokens, and $3.00 vs $4.40 per million output tokens. Figures are base-tier rates. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.