The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
gpt-5.5-pre-release vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview ·OpenAI vs Alibaba

gpt-5.5-pre-release vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — head-to-head comparison

gpt-5.5-pre-release profile Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview profile All comparisons
gpt-5.5-pre-release — OpenAI
Quality
#1 of 61
98based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — Alibaba
Quality
#9 of 61
90based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#182 of 316
44.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#246 of 340
$2.34
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.04 · Out $6.24
Cache hit price
#113 of 206
$0.13
per 1M tokens (−88%)
Context
#130 of 345
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, gpt-5.5-pre-release scores 98 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores 90 — a 7-point lead for gpt-5.5-pre-release. They share 3 published evaluations, with gpt-5.5-pre-release ahead on 3 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview only, at $2.34 per 1M tokens blended.

gpt-5.5-pre-release is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview is proprietary. 1 tracked host serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 26 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Known Good Index 98 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 90 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $2.34
Output tok/s 45
Context window 262k
Providers 0 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Known Good Index 98 90
Mathematics Index 100 91
Science Index 99 93
Agentic Index 94 87
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = gpt-5.5-pre-release · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond94 / 89
MATH / AIME100 / 91
SWE-bench Verified81 / 77

Right-hand figures read gpt-5.5-pre-release / Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview. gpt-5.5-pre-release leads on 3 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Text Arena 1,456
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,460
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Input $/1M $1.04
Output $/1M $6.24
Blended $/1M $2.34
Cache read $/1M $0.130
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Context window 262k
Max output tokens 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Output tokens/s 45
Time to first token 1.4s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

1 host
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider gpt-5.5-pre-release blendedgpt-5.5-pre-release tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview tok/s
Alibaba · first party $2.34 2

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →