GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Release Comparison

Name: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the GPT-5.6 Terra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B releases: 6 and 2 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 8 models.

For intelligence, GPT-5.6 Terra scores highest: GPT-5.6 Terra (max) at 42, against Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) at 19 for Qwen3.6 35B A3B.
For output speed, Qwen3.6 35B A3B is fastest: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) at 131 t/s, against GPT-5.6 Terra (max) at 91 t/s for GPT-5.6 Terra.
For cost per task, GPT-5.6 Terra is cheapest: GPT-5.6 Terra (Non-reasoning) at $0.14, against Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) at $0.48 for Qwen3.6 35B A3B.

Releases compared

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 includes: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

GPT-5.6 Terra

Pareto line

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Capability Scores

Capability Indices

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better

Further details


																												Input modality	Output modality	Weights			Provider Benchmarks
GPT-5.6 Terra (max)	OpenAI	42	42	48	42	41	43	45	$1.40	$1.7	$2.00	$12.00	$0.20	$2,501	39k	26k	122M	91	139.76s	139.76s	145.27s	434.09s	-	1M	Jul 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	Not available	-		View
GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh)	OpenAI	38	40	44	40	38	38	44	$0.63	$1.7	$2.00	$12.00	$0.20	$1,187	20k	12k	52M	89	14.46s	14.46s	20.10s	230.84s	-	1M	Jul 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	Not available	-		View
GPT-5.6 Terra (high)	OpenAI	34	38	40	37	34	35	42	$0.34	$1.7	$2.00	$12.00	$0.20	$768	11k	5k	33M	83	3.14s	3.14s	9.15s	135.49s	-	1M	Jul 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	Not available	-		View
GPT-5.6 Terra (medium)	OpenAI	30	32	35	34	31	31	37	$0.18	$1.7	$2.00	$12.00	$0.20	$447	5k	2k	17M	85	1.83s	1.83s	7.69s	64.28s	-	1M	Jul 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	Not available	-		View
GPT-5.6 Terra (low)	OpenAI	28	30	32	31	28	28	35	$0.14	$1.7	$2.00	$12.00	$0.20	$350	4k	1k	11M	86	1.71s	1.71s	7.53s	44.94s	-	1M	Jul 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	Not available	-		View
GPT-5.6 Terra (Non-reasoning)	OpenAI	21	22	24	23	-	21	24	$0.14	$1.7	$2.00	$12.00	$0.20	$256	3k	0	6M	90	0.90s	0.90s	6.44s	34.56s	-	1M	Jul 2026	-	No	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	Not available	-		View
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)	Alibaba	19	19	14	22	-	22	30	$0.48	$0.6	$0.375	$2.25	-	$896	35k	13k	161M	127	2.07s	44.48s	48.41s	261.90s	36B 3B active at inference time	262k	Apr 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	🤗	Apache 2.0	+4	View
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)	Alibaba	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	$0.6	$0.375	$2.25	-	-	-	-	-	131	2.06s	2.06s	5.88s	-	36B 3B active at inference time	262k	Apr 2026	-	No	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text	🤗	Apache 2.0	+3	View

GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output Speed

Model Performance Representation

Capability Scores

Capability Indices

Further details