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title: "Compare alternatives to Qwen3.6 Plus · Undominated.ai"
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description: "12 alternatives score at least as high as Qwen3.6 Plus and cost no more under at least one listed workload. 4 preserve recorded capabilities; 8 have named trade-offs."
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# Compare alternatives to Qwen3.6 Plus · Undominated.ai

> 12 alternatives score at least as high as Qwen3.6 Plus and cost no more under at least one listed workload. 4 preserve recorded capabilities; 8 have named trade-offs.

# Alternatives to Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen · LMArena 1436.7 · $0.731/M on a balanced workload · prices as of 2026-10-06

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## 4 models are higher-scoring or cheaper, with neither dimension worse.

Of the 144 models carrying both an independent score and a published price at the same delivery mode, **12** score at least as high as Qwen3.6 Plus and cost no more under at least one listed workload, with at least one of those dimensions improved. **4** match or beat its recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning. **8** have a recorded capability loss, named on every row.

Dominance is not a property of a model. It is a property of a model, a capability lens and a workload, and all three are named on every row. Scores are LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset; prices are blended per million tokens. A higher score is not a drop-in replacement.

This page is built only while a candidate improves score or price without worsening the other under a listed workload. When that comparison no longer holds, it is not generated.

## Where it holds

| Workload | Qwen3.6 Plus $/M | Recorded capabilities preserved | Recorded capability losses |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Balanced | $0.731 | 4 | 5 |
| Summarise | $0.406 | 4 | 7 |
| Chat | $0.975 | 4 | 6 |
| Code gen | $1.30 | 4 | 6 |
| Agentic | $0.569 | 4 | 7 |

Workload mixes are defined on the [methodology page](/methodology/). Cached input is priced at the cached rate, and reasoning tokens at the worse of the reasoning and output rates.

## What you would be replacing

| Intelligence | 1436.7 |
| --- | --- |
| Context window | 1M |
| Max output | 65K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Extended reasoning | yes |

Preserving recorded capabilities requires matching or beating these fields. [Full record for Qwen3.6 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.6-plus/), or [check Qwen3.6 Plus against the whole catalogue](/check/qwen__qwen3.6-plus/).

## Recorded capabilities preserved 4

Each option has a higher score or a lower price, with neither dimension worse under the listed workloads. It matches or beats Qwen3.6 Plus on recorded context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning.

| # | Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) Xiaomi | 1491 +54.3 | $0.540 | Balanced −26% Summarise −19% Chat −51% Code gen −49% Agentic −57% |
| 2 | [GLM 5.3 Flash](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) Z.ai | 1469.6 +32.9 | $0.238 | Balanced −68% Summarise −67% Chat −74% Code gen −73% Agentic −77% |
| 3 | [MiMo-V2.6-Flash](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-flash/) Xiaomi | 1456.4 +19.7 | $0.175 | Balanced −76% Summarise −73% Chat −84% Code gen −84% Agentic −86% |
| 4 | [Qwen3.8 27B](/models/qwen__qwen3.8-27b/) Qwen | 1440.7 tie | $0.562 | Balanced −23% Summarise −55% Chat −13% Code gen −6% Agentic −35% |

## Alternatives with recorded capability losses 8

These improve score or price without worsening the other under the listed workloads, but reduce at least one recorded capability. Read the last column before switching.

| Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under | Recorded capability loss |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/) DeepSeek | 1462.5 +25.8 | $0.182 | Balanced −75% Summarise −84% Chat −75% Code gen −72% Agentic −82% | no video input |
| [MiMo-V2.5-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.5-pro/) Xiaomi | 1465 +28.3 | $0.544 | Balanced −26% Summarise −18% Chat −51% Code gen −49% Agentic −57% | no image, video input |
| [Qwen3.7 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.7-plus/) Qwen | 1454.6 +17.9 | $0.560 | Balanced −23% Summarise −27% Chat −36% Code gen −33% Agentic −45% | no video input |
| [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) Google | 1443.4 tie | $0.205 | Balanced −72% Summarise −62% Chat −75% Code gen −77% Agentic −69% | 1M → 262K context 66K → 16K max output |
| [Hy3](/models/tencent__hy3/) Tencent | 1440.7 tie | $0.231 | Balanced −68% Summarise −70% Chat −73% Code gen −72% Agentic −77% | 1M → 262K context no image, video input |
| [GLM 5.3](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3/) Z.ai | 1471.4 +34.7 | $0.346 summarise | Summarise −15% | no image, video input |
| [Kimi K2.6](/models/moonshotai__kimi-k2.6/) Moonshot AI | 1455.5 +18.8 | $0.544 agentic | Agentic −4% | 1M → 262K context no video input |
| [GLM 4.6](/models/z-ai__glm-4.6/) Z.ai | 1439.9 tie | $0.396 summarise | Summarise −2% Chat −13% Code gen −8% Agentic −26% | 1M → 205K context 66K → 16K max output no image, video input |

## What this compares, and what it leaves out

 - Quality is LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset. The 95% confidence interval on a difference between two scores is about ±10.47 points, so a gap smaller than that is marked *tie* rather than an improvement — see [significance bands](/significance/).
 - 204 further models at this delivery mode carry a price but no independent score. They are absent from the comparison in both directions — unrated is not a zero, and an unmeasured model is neither an alternative nor a worse buy.
 - Retired models are never offered as an alternative, and a model only competes against its own delivery mode: batch trades latency for price, so it is not a like-for-like swap.
 - Nothing here measures latency, throughput, rate limits or how a model behaves on your prompts. Two models with the same index score are not interchangeable.
 - Models with no higher-scoring or cheaper alternative that is no worse on the other axis are on the [value frontier](/frontier/). Models with such an alternative are [listed here](/alternatives/).

## Continue your investigation

 - [Check requirements](/check/)
- [Compare exact differences](/compare/)
- [Set a quality floor](/cheapest-at/)
- [Inspect tier boundaries](/cliffs/)