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Qwen3.7-Max vs GPT-5.6 Sol

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 17 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

AlibabaQwen3.7-Max Released 19 May 2026 · $1.48 in · $4.42 out
OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol Released 9 Jul 2026 · $4.00 in · $20.00 out
Qwen3.7-Max wins 21 too close to callGPT-5.6 Sol wins 14

Of the 17 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.

Results as of 9 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-09-dd620e778ac5). See also Alibaba vs OpenAI, every model from both labs.

Qwen3.7-Max or GPT-5.6 Sol? The short answer

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol if quality matters most: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 47.0 against 29.5). Pick Qwen3.7-Max if cost matters more: it costs 3.6 times less per token.

  • Qwen3.7-Max is cheaper: $2.21 against $8.00 per million tokens, 3.6 times less.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 47.0 against 29.5.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol is newer: released 9 Jul 2026, against 19 May 2026 for Qwen3.7-Max.
  • On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: GPT-5.6 Sol does better for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge and sticking to the facts.

Head to head

29.5
Intelligence Index
47.0
$2.21
Price per million tokens, blendedlower is better
$8.00
1,000,000
Context window, tokens
1,050,000

Every fact side by side

Qwen3.7-MaxGPT-5.6 Sol
Price per million tokens$1.48 in · $4.42 out$4.00 in · $20.00 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$2.21$8.00
Cheapest host, blended–$4.00 (OpenAI)
Cached input, per million–$0.40 cached input
Intelligence Index29.547.0
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window1,000,000 tokens1,050,000 tokens
Released19 May 20269 Jul 2026 (newer)
WeightsClosedClosed
Developer based inChinathe US

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 69 of 164 8 of 164
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects not measured 1 of 51
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 39 of 198 7 of 198
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality not measured 21 of 188
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 31 of 152 48 of 152

Every shared result

Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.

MeasureQwen3.7-MaxGPT-5.6 Sol
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results
Confirmed task success · AgentIPS effect estimate, higher is better 39 · 17 of 48 measured -0.09arena agent 0.05xhigh reasoning, arena agent
Praise over complaint · AgentIPS effect estimate, higher is better 39 · 8 of 48 measured -0.09arena agent 0.20xhigh reasoning, arena agent
Steerability · AgentIPS effect estimate, higher is better 41 · 11 of 48 measured -0.06arena agent 0.06xhigh reasoning, arena agent
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 3 results
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 53 · 11 of 243 measured 29.5 47.0max reasoning
GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 21 · 5 of 231 measured 92.3% 94.1%max reasoning
Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 39 · 9 of 242 measured 40.5% 49.5%max reasoning
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) reported by SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) · 1 result
Correct answers% of questions, higher is better 18 · 7 of 76 measured 55.8% 69.7%max reasoning
Show all 17 results (10 more)
MeasureQwen3.7-MaxGPT-5.6 Sol
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 1 result
Tool grounding · AgentIPS effect estimate, higher is better 34 · 26 of 48 measured 0.00arena agent 0.00xhigh reasoning, arena agent
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 9 results
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 33 · 3 of 130 measured 74.5% 89.5%xhigh reasoning
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks, higher is better 51 · 11 of 112 measured 1.5% 39.9%max reasoning
τ-bench banking% of tasks, higher is better 71 · 14 of 121 measured 11.8% 44.3%max reasoning
Artificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score, higher is better 34 · 2 of 131 measured 66.0 78.3xhigh reasoning
IFBench% of instructions, higher is better 5 · 38 of 195 measured 80.5% 72.7%max reasoning
Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions, higher is better 50 · 6 of 233 measured 79.0% 84.0%max reasoning
SciCode% of problems, higher is better 52 · 13 of 113 measured 49.5% 57.8%high reasoning
Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks, higher is better 12 · 1 of 190 measured 50.8% 65.9%max reasoning
τ²-bench telecom% of tasks, higher is better 22 · 59 of 193 measured 94.7% 85.1%max reasoning

Quick answers

Is Qwen3.7-Max better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol if quality matters most: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 47.0 against 29.5). Pick Qwen3.7-Max if cost matters more: it costs 3.6 times less per token.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.7-Max or GPT-5.6 Sol?

Qwen3.7-Max is cheaper: $2.21 against $8.00 per million tokens, 3.6 times less.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Qwen3.7-Max or GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol ranks 8 of 164 models on sale for multi-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls, against 69 for Qwen3.7-Max.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Qwen3.7-Max or GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol ranks 7 of 198 models on sale for hard questions across science, maths and general knowledge, against 39 for Qwen3.7-Max.

Which is better for sticking to the facts, Qwen3.7-Max or GPT-5.6 Sol?

Qwen3.7-Max ranks 31 of 152 models on sale for summarising without inventing things, and factual answers, against 48 for GPT-5.6 Sol.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3.7-Max or GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol: 1,050,000 tokens, against 1,000,000 for Qwen3.7-Max.

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