GPT-5.6 Sol (Max) vs Qwen3.7 Max

Which is better for the money: GPT-5.6 Sol (Max) by OpenAI or Qwen3.7 Max by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 47.00
Total cost: $3465

AlibabaQwen3.7 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 29.50
Total cost: $2277

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-5.6 Sol (Max) scores 17.5 points higher (47.0 vs 29.5) but costs 1.5× as much to run the benchmark ($3465 vs $2277; both flagship class). Pick GPT-5.6 Sol (Max) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Qwen3.7 Max.

Metric	GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)	Qwen3.7 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	47.0	29.5	−37.2% Qwen3.7 Max is 37.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$3,464.84	$2,277.12	−34.3% Qwen3.7 Max is 34.3% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	105.07s	16.62s	−84.2% Qwen3.7 Max is 84.2% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$4.00 / $20.0	$2.50 / $7.50
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

Qwen3.7 Max vs GPT-5.6 Sol (Max): 37.2% less intelligence, 34.3% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 84.2% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-5.6 Sol (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.10 for $3117.
Qwen3.7 Max is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.

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