Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-6 Astra vs QwQ Plus

GPT-6 Astra has enough public results to be ranked (#1); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Astra OpenAI

70.8

Rank #1 Confirmed

QwQ Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

38.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-6 Astra scores higher in 1 category and QwQ Plus in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-6 Astra leads 75.3 to 36.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 95.8% for GPT-6 Astra and 65.4% for QwQ Plus.
  • QwQ Plus is cheaper at $0.80 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for GPT-6 Astra.
  • GPT-6 Astra accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index70.838.0
Released2026-09-032025-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$10$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$50$2.40
Results tracked561

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 73.7 (#2), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
DeepSWE74.1%—
FrontierCode53.3%—
LMArena WebDev1786—
FrontierSWE65.5%—
SciCode56.5%—
GSO79.4%—
WeirdML93.6%—
LMArena Coding1487—
MirrorCode46.7%—
ALE-Bench2,951—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 52.9 (#3), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
APEX-Agents64.7%—
Remote Labor Index20.8%—
BALROG68.3%—
GDP.pdf34.2%—
Vending-Bench 215,515—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
ARC-AGI-295%—
NYT Connections (extended)98.1%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt31.7%—
Chess Puzzles72%—
EBR-Bench76.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1462—
Mystery Game Puzzles84%—
DTBench97.3%—
LMCA64.4%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index166.45—

Math Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 93.5 (#2), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)93.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 497.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench99%—
LMArena Math1465—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1), QwQ Plus: 36.4

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
GPQA Diamond95.8%65.4%
Humanity's Last Exam54.8%—
SimpleQA Verified75.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.7%—
LMArena Expert1483—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 55.0 (#3), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 249.7%—
Furniture Assembly80%—
LMArena Document1468—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 53.7 (#61), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
LMArena Non-English1430—
LMArena Chinese1484—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1440—
LMArena Japanese1379—
LMArena Korean1426—
LMArena Russian1436—
LMArena Spanish1407—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 76.3 (#44), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1450—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 44.5 (#62), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
LMArena Longer Query1456—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#7), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraQwQ Plus
LMArena Text1441—
LMArena Creative Writing1418—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2173—
LMArena Multi-Turn1448—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6 Astra better than QwQ Plus?

GPT-6 Astra has enough public results to be ranked (#1); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Astra or QwQ Plus?

QwQ Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Astra lists at $10 and $50.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Astra does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Astra and QwQ Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-6 Astra has 56 scored results on Noometry and QwQ Plus has 1.

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