GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) vs Qwen3.7 Max

Which is better for the money: GPT-6.1 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.

Clear winner

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (Max)On the frontier

Intelligence: 51.80
Total cost: $1082

AlibabaQwen3.7 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 29.50
Total cost: $2277

Verdict

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)

Qwen3.7 Max vs GPT-6.1 Sol (Max): 43.1% less intelligence, 110.5% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 93.4% faster end-to-end.

Metric	GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	Qwen3.7 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	51.8	29.5	−43.1% Qwen3.7 Max is 43.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,081.55	$2,277.12	+110.5% Qwen3.7 Max is 2.1× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	250.43s	16.62s	−93.4% Qwen3.7 Max is 93.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$2.50 / $7.50
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
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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