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

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the GPT-6 Luna 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 output speed, Qwen3.6 35B A3B is fastest: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) at 148 t/s, against GPT-6 Luna (Max) at 132 t/s for GPT-6 Luna.

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Releases compared


	GPT-6 Luna (max)	GPT-6 Luna (xhigh)	GPT-6 Luna (high)	GPT-6 Luna (medium)	GPT-6 Luna (low)	GPT-6 Luna (non-reasoning)	Qwen3.6 35B A3B	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (non-reasoning)
Intelligence Index	28	23	21	18	10	9	--	--
Finance & Accounting	34	31	29	26	17	19	--	--
Strategy & Ops	43	39	38	34	17	17	--	--
Legal	32	28	27	24	16	17	--	--
Healthcare & Medical	35	30	29	27	16	16	--	--
Engineering	33	29	27	25	19	17	--	--
Economics	35	32	30	28	19	20	--	--
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1337	1235	1187	1096	740	902	713	--
AutomationBench-AA	53.2%	47.8%	47.8%	40.5%	12.0%	9.1%	5.2%	--
Terminal-Bench 4.0	12.6%	8.1%	4.5%	2.5%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	--
FrontierCode 2.0	25.2%	18.4%	18.6%	12.8%	2.2%	1.6%	--	--
AA-Omniscience v1.1	−8	−13	−13	−14	−18	−26	--	--
GDP.pdf	22.8%	18.6%	18.2%	13.8%	9.0%	5.8%	6.6%	--
HLE-Diamond	22.2%	18.9%	15.6%	15.1%	10.2%	6.3%	6.9%	--
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	41.5%	35.5%	30.5%	26.0%	9.5%	4.5%	--	--
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	8.6%	5.2%	2.9%	1.4%	1.0%	1.0%	--	--

Cost per TaskUSD	$0.15	$0.10	$0.07	$0.04	$0.01	$0.07	--	--
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.375	$0.375
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.50	$0.50	$0.50	$0.50	$0.50	$0.50	$2.25	$2.25
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01	--	--
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.125	$0.125	$0.125	$0.125	$0.125	$0.125	--	--

Output SpeedTokens/s	132	127	122	--	127	124	135	148
Time to First Tokens	108.24	31.25	26.55	--	2.54	0.81	2.04	2.05
Time to First Answer Tokens	108.24	31.25	26.55	--	2.54	0.81	42.10	2.05
End-to-End Response Times	112.02	35.17	30.64	--	6.46	4.83	45.82	5.41
Time per Tasks	543.73	345.72	271.48	--	25.97	80.70	--	--

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	262k	262k
Creator	OpenAI	OpenAI	OpenAI	OpenAI	OpenAI	OpenAI	Alibaba	Alibaba
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Open	Open
Input Modality	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text, image, and video
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers							+5	+4

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

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

Most attractive quadrant

GPT-6 Luna

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

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 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 or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes

Each axis is one of 8 personality indexes: the mean of its traits’ Elo z-scores, percentile ranked from 1 to 100 across all models evaluated in the benchmark

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

Intelligence

Speed

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per 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 Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes