GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) vs Qwen3.8 Max

Which is better for the money: GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) by OpenAI or Qwen3.8 Max by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Clear winner

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (Max)On the frontier

Intelligence: 51.80
Total cost: $1082

AlibabaQwen3.8 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 40.20
Total cost: $3172

Verdict

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)

Qwen3.8 Max vs GPT-6.1 Sol (Max): 22.4% less intelligence, 193.3% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 71.5% faster end-to-end.

Metric	GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	Qwen3.8 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	51.8	40.2	−22.4% Qwen3.8 Max is 22.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,081.55	$3,172.37	+193.3% Qwen3.8 Max is 2.9× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	220.48s	62.83s	−71.5% Qwen3.8 Max is 71.5% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$2.00 / $6.00
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image, Video

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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.
Qwen3.8 Max is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.10 for $3117.

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