GPT-6 Astra vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
GPT-6 Astra leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 16.4 points, and GPT-6 Astra scores higher on 7 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.
At a glance
| Measure | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Intelligence Index | 82.2% | 65.7% |
| Rank | #1 of 9 | #7 of 9 |
| Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price. | $0.864 | — |
| Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged. | 9.6s | 14.3s |
| Tokens per task | 86,253 | 25,755 |
| Input / 1M tokens | $10.00 | — |
| Output / 1M tokens | $50.00 | — |
| Context window | 1.05M | 256K |
| Availability | Proprietary | Open weights |
Capabilities
Each capability index is a weighted mean of the benchmarks that contribute to the capability.
| Capability | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Perception | 80.8% | 65.3% |
| Spatial Reasoning | 84.6% | 65.8% |
| Temporal Reasoning | 83.0% | 65.5% |
| Action / Event Understanding | 79.2% | 62.2% |
| Causal Reasoning | 83.8% | 70.1% |
| Information Retrieval | 80.7% | 63.6% |
Benchmarks
Usability
GPT-6 Astra
3.5/ 5
- Reachable1.0
There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
- First-party API — supported
- Third-party API — supported
- Portable0.0
You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
- Open weights — not supported
- Self-hostable — not supported
- Multimodal input0.5
It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
- Video ingestion — not supported
- Audio — supported
- Programmable1.0
Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
- Structured output — supported
- Tool calling — supported
- Operable1.0
Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
- Streaming — supported
- Batch API — supported
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
4.5/ 5
- Reachable1.0
There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
- First-party API — supported
- Third-party API — supported
- Portable1.0
You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
- Open weights — supported
- Self-hostable — supported
- Multimodal input1.0
It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
- Video ingestion — supported
- Audio — supported
- Programmable1.0
Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
- Structured output — supported
- Tool calling — supported
- Operable0.5
Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
- Streaming — supported
- Batch API — not supported