GPT-5.6 SolvsQwen3.5 Max Preview

GPT-5.6 Sol leads the overall Podium Score by 7.8 points (80.8 vs 73.0).Category wins: GPT-5.6 Sol 0 — 0 Qwen3.5 Max Preview.Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the cheaper pick ($2/M vs $30/M per 1M output tokens). GPT-5.6 Sol is faster (72 t/s vs 50 t/s).

MetricGPT-5.6 SolQwen3.5 Max Preview
Podium Score80.8 ▲73.0
Arena Elo1483
Intelligence Index59.0
Coding64.8
Math70.7
Reasoning87.6
Agentic33.9
Knowledge22.0
Multimodal97.4
Long-context100.0
Output speed72 t/s ▲50 t/s
Output price$30/M$2/M ▲
Context window1100K ▲128K
Scores aggregated from five leaderboards on 2026-08-05. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Mythos Preview · GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Fable 5 · GPT-5.6 Sol vs Kimi K3 · GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5