The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·Anthropic vs Alibaba

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#17 of 61
80based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#197 of 316
41.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#301 of 340
$6.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $3.00 · Out $15.00
Cache hit price
#165 of 206
$0.30
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#55 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#5 of 61
93based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#205 of 316
40.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#243 of 340
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#164 of 206
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#84 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores 80 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 13-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 3.

Blended pricing is $6.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and $2.21 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is about 2.7× cheaper.

Throughput is 41 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 40 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 1.6s and 1.4s. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 1.00M.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 5 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 80 based on 4 of 6 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $6.00 $2.21
Output tok/s 41 40
Context window 1.00M 1.00M
Providers 4 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
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 Sonnet 4.6Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 80 93
Coding Index 71 —
Mathematics Index 86 95
Science Index 91 96
Agentic Index 71 88
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 Sonnet 4.6 · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond87 / 92
MATH / AIME86 / 95
SWE-bench Verified75 / 77

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads on 0 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 3.

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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 Sonnet 4.6Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Text Arena 1,458 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,473 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
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 Sonnet 4.6Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $3.00 $1.48
Output $/1M $15.00 $4.42
Blended $/1M $6.00 $2.21
Cache read $/1M $0.300 $0.295
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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 Sonnet 4.6Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 1.00M 1.00M
Max output tokens 128k 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 41 40
Time to first token 1.6s 1.4s
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Providers

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

5 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
Amazon Bedrock · first party $6.00 41 — —
Google · first party $6.00 41 — —
Anthropic · first party $6.00 38 — —
Azure · first party $6.00 — — —
Alibaba · first party — — $2.21 44

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 →