LLM Comparison
Qwen3.6 Plus vs Sonar Reasoning Pro
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 69 61.0 | 49 9.8 |
| Family | Qwen | Sonar |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Apr 2026 | Mar 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M tokens | 128K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.33/M tokens | $2.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $1.95/M tokens | $8.00/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisionvideocode | textvisioncodeextended-thinking |
| Max Output | 66K tokens | — |
| API Identifier | qwen/qwen3.6-plus | perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA | 90.4alibaba | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.1alibaba | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.8alibaba | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 61.6alibaba | — |
| TAU3-Bench | 70.7alibaba | — |
| VideoMME | 87.8alibaba | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 88.1818artificial-analysis | 62.3perplexity |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 61.4232artificial-analysis | — |
| MATH-500 | — | 92.1perplexity |
| AIME | — | 77perplexity |
| MMLU Pro | — | 79perplexity |
| View Qwen3.6 Plus | View Sonar Reasoning Pro | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 PlusCheapest | $0.33 | $0.98 | $1.30 | — |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | $2.00 | $4.00 | $6.00 | +362% |
Alibaba
Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen3.6 Plus is a multimodal llm from Alibaba. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Achieves 87.5% on MMLU. Available from $0.33/M input tokens.
Perplexity AI
Sonar Reasoning Pro
Sonar Reasoning Pro is a multimodal llm from Perplexity AI. Supports up to 128,000 token context window. Achieves 83.0% on MMLU. Available from $2.00/M input tokens.
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