GPT-5.6 Sol (Medium) vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

GPT-5.6 Sol (Medium) vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol (Medium)Off the frontier
Intelligence
39.20
Total cost
$997
AlibabaQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
9.90
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricGPT-5.6 Sol (Medium)Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)39.29.9−74.7% Qwen3 VL 235B A22B In… is 74.7% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$997.39Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)11.36s12.40s+9.2% Qwen3 VL 235B A22B In… is 9.2% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$4.00 / $20.0$0.21 / $1.39
Input modalitiesText, ImageText, Image
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