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Qwen 3.6 Plus at a glance

Good enough on 24/52 tasks at the 90% bar. Best value on 0 tasks. Best fit for: Financial Analysis & Trading Decisions.

Provider
Alibaba Cloud (DashScope)
Model name
qwen3.6-plus
Cost mode:
Qualifies on
24 / 52 tasks (at 90% bar)
Best value on
0 tasks

Cost vs quality across all tasks

0%25%50%75%100%78910Quality score (7–10)Cost-efficiency vs best value (1.0 = best value)Vetted News Site Selection — quality 8.11, 2.7x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionResearch Query Generation — quality 7.72, 4.3x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionStructured Output Extraction — quality 9.65, 93.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionEngagement Reply Review — quality 9.88, 38.4x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionActivity Feed Blurb Generation — quality 8.52, 28.2x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSubstack Newsletter — quality 8.96, 15.4x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionInvestment Panel Voting — quality 8.77, 1.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSocial Post Promotion — quality 8.16, 15.7x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionOnboarding Chapter Prompt Adaptation — quality 8.66, 11.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTrading Recommendation — quality 7.98, 2.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionS-1 TOC Extraction — quality 8.69, 10.1x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionAuthor Living-Person Safety Check — quality 8.62, 11.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionLanguage Detection — quality 9.91, 50.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionPublication Title Generation — quality 8.23, 16.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTopic Cluster Naming — quality 8.46, 2.6x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTopic Grouping and Client Matching — quality 7.81, 4.6x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionEngagement Triage — quality 8.51, 43.4x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionPrompt Adaptation — quality 8.81, 25.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionX Post Selection — quality 8.50, 7.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionAuthor Matching — quality 8.20, 1.4x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSEC S-1 Chunk Analysis — quality 8.70, 5.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionClaim Refinement — quality 8.14, 16.3x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionImage Prompt Generation — quality 8.61, 18.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTopic-to-Section Assignment — quality 8.25, 6.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough option

within ~1.3× of the best-value model · 1.3–2× · >2× · ★ this model is the best-value pick on that task. Top-right = best quadrant. Only tasks where this model qualifies at the 90% bar are plotted.

Per-task breakdown

TaskCategoryQuality (% of best)ConfidenceOverpay
Author MatchingRelevance, Classification & Matching90%MEDIUM1.4x
Investment Panel VotingFinancial Analysis & Trading Decisions97%HIGH1.8x
Trading RecommendationFinancial Analysis & Trading Decisions92%MEDIUM2.5x
Topic Cluster NamingTopic Organization & Clustering97%HIGH2.6x
Vetted News Site SelectionRelevance, Classification & Matching96%HIGH2.7x
Research Query GenerationInfrastructure & Utility90%MEDIUM4.3x
Topic Grouping and Client MatchingRelevance, Classification & Matching91%HIGH4.6x
SEC S-1 Chunk AnalysisFinancial Analysis & Trading Decisions94%RANKED5x
Topic-to-Section AssignmentTopic Organization & Clustering92%MEDIUM6.8x
X Post SelectionRelevance, Classification & Matching97%RANKED7.5x
S-1 TOC ExtractionStructured Data & Fact Extraction93%MEDIUM10x
Author Living-Person Safety CheckRelevance, Classification & Matching93%MEDIUM11x
Onboarding Chapter Prompt AdaptationInfrastructure & Utility96%RANKED12x
Substack NewsletterLong-form Content Generation97%HIGH15x
Social Post PromotionSocial & Promotional Content92%HIGH16x
Publication Title GenerationContent Summarization & Synthesis92%RANKED16x
Claim RefinementInfrastructure & Utility96%HIGH16x
Image Prompt GenerationInfrastructure & Utility94%RANKED18x
Prompt AdaptationInfrastructure & Utility99%RANKED26x
Activity Feed Blurb GenerationSocial & Promotional Content97%RANKED28x
Engagement Reply Review bestRelevance, Classification & Matching100%RANKED38x
Engagement TriageRelevance, Classification & Matching95%HIGH43x
Language DetectionRelevance, Classification & Matching99%RANKED50x
Structured Output ExtractionStructured Data & Fact Extraction98%RANKED93x

Overpay — how much more you pay by running this model instead of the best-value model that clears the quality bar on that task (marked ★). "16x" means you overpay 16× — the same output for 16× the best-value good-enough option; ★ means this model is that option (no overpayment). Confidence — how sure we are about the quality score (more judgments + more agreement = higher confidence): RANKED many independent judges scored this model's outputs and their agreement is very high (most confident) — HIGH many judges have scored it and they mostly agree (well-pinned) — MEDIUM enough judges have weighed in to publish, but they disagree more than we'd like (treat with a small grain of salt). LOW-confidence cells are hidden everywhere on the site. See the methodology for the exact thresholds.