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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview ·Anthropic vs Alibaba

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 profile Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic
Quality
#7 of 65
92based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#163 of 338
49.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#410 of 442
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#296 of 324
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#148 of 476
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — Alibaba
Quality
#12 of 65
89based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#176 of 338
46.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#323 of 442
$2.31
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.03 · Out $6.16
Cache hit price
#187 of 324
$0.13
per 1M tokens (−87%)
Context
#220 of 476
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 92 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores 89 — a 3-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ahead on 3 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and $2.31 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview is about 4.3× cheaper.

Throughput is 50 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and 46 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview, with time to first token at 1.4s and 1.9s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 262k.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview is proprietary. 6 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 4 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Known Good Index 92 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 89 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $2.31
Output tok/s 50 46
Context window 1.00M 262k
Providers 5 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Known Good Index 92 89
Coding Index 97
Reasoning Index 85
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 87
Mock AIME 2024–2598 / 91
SWE-bench Verified83 / 77

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 / Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on 3 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Text Arena 1,483 1,446
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,494 1,460
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Input $/1M $5.00 $1.03
Output $/1M $25.00 $6.16
Blended $/1M $10.00 $2.31
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.130
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Context window 1.00M 262k
Max output tokens 128k 66k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Output tokens/s 50 46
Time to first token 1.4s 1.9s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

6 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 74
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 58
Anthropic · first party $10.00 48
Claude Platform on AWS $10.00 46
Azure · first party $10.00 32
Alibaba · first party $2.31 49

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →