GPT-6 Astra (Low) vs Qwen3.7 Max

Which is better for the money: GPT-6 Astra (Low) by OpenAI or Qwen3.7 Max by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.

Clear winner

OpenAIGPT-6 Astra (Low)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 45.80
Total cost: $1537

AlibabaQwen3.7 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 29.50
Total cost: $2277

Verdict

Pick GPT-6 Astra (Low)

Qwen3.7 Max vs GPT-6 Astra (Low): 35.6% less intelligence, 48.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 31.6% slower end-to-end.

Metric	GPT-6 Astra (Low)	Qwen3.7 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	45.8	29.5	−35.6% Qwen3.7 Max is 35.6% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,536.78	$2,277.12	+48.2% Qwen3.7 Max is 48.2% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	12.56s	16.53s	+31.6% Qwen3.7 Max is 31.6% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$10.0 / $50.0	$2.50 / $7.50
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-6 Astra (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
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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