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Grok 4.3 Beta vs Qwen 3.6 Plus

Grok 4.3 Beta · xAI, released 2026-04-17
Qwen 3.6 Plus · Alibaba, released 2026-03-31

“Epoch AI, 'AI Benchmarking Hub'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource].” · epoch.ai/benchmarks · Licensed CC BY 4.0 · data last verified 2026-09-09 · Methodology · Data Sources

Grok 4.3 Beta leads on more of the 5 benchmarks where both are measured — Grok 4.3 Beta on 3, Qwen 3.6 Plus on 1, tied on 1. The remaining 4 of 9 tracked benchmarks cannot be compared: 3 have a result for only one of the two models, 1 for neither. Nothing on this page is estimated to fill those in.

Head-to-head

Measured on 5 of 9 tracked benchmarks for both models — Grok 4.3 Beta leads on 3, Qwen 3.6 Plus leads on 1, tied on 1.

BenchmarkGrok 4.3 Beta Qwen 3.6 PlusLeads
Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI)149.2147.7Grok 4.3 Beta
SWE-bench VerifiedNot measured0.579Comparison unavailable — Grok 4.3 Beta has no published result
GPQA Diamond0.888 (high)0.884Grok 4.3 Beta
MATH Level 5Not measuredNot measuredNot measured on both
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.933 (high)0.933Tied
FrontierMathNot measured0.262Comparison unavailable — Grok 4.3 Beta has no published result
FrontierMath Tier 4Not measured0.083Comparison unavailable — Grok 4.3 Beta has no published result
SimpleQA Verified0.332 (high)0.441Qwen 3.6 Plus
Chess Puzzles0.250 (high)0.170Grok 4.3 Beta
Benchmark results measure specific tasks and should not be treated as a universal measure of model quality. A model with no row here for a benchmark has not been measured on it — that is left blank, never estimated.

What remains uncertain

A missing result means Xentir has not found one published by the source it cites, not that the model performs badly. See Data Sources.

Full profiles

Grok 4.3 Beta → · Qwen 3.6 Plus → · the full AI Model Rankings table