Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Head to head on 11 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
52evals · sort by any column, ⤢ to expand fullscreen
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| Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba | 61.9% | 26.2% | 88.4% | 27.8% | 73.5% | 78.2% | 58.3% | 75.0% | 68.0% | 40.7% | 74.7% | - | - | - | 95.3 | - | - | 18.0% | - | - | - | 40.8% | - | 96.7 | 75.2% | 83.2% | - | 69.9% | 83.7% | 75.8% | - | - | 36.9% | 77.0% | 88.5 | 94.5 | - | 89.5 | - | 44.9% | 73.8 | - | - | - | 43.9% | 59.5 | - | 32.0% | 51.5% | 25.6% | - | 97.7% | 58.8% |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic | 53.6% | 2.1% | 55.3% | 4.1% | 63.7% | 65.6% | 69.2% | 56.4% | 64.1% | 36.6% | 70.2% | 51.6% | 15.7% | 3.3% | - | 52.4% | 24.2% | - | 28.0% | 1451elo | 58.4 | - | 96.4 | - | - | - | 0.0% | - | - | - | 38.1% | 77.1% | - | - | - | - | 77.2% | - | 0.0% | - | - | 51.3% | 25.3% | 63.4% | - | - | 0.98 | - | - | - | 62.6% | - | 42.7% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic | Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude Sonnet 3.5 is an AI model from Anthropic. | Qwen3.6Plus is an AI model from Alibaba. |
| Family | Claude | Qwen3.6 |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | closed | closed |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Released | 22 Oct 2024 | 2 Apr 2026 |
| Context | 200,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $0.50 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $3.00 |
| Cache read $/1M | - | - |
| Cache write $/1M | - | $0.406 |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image | text, image, video |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Reported scores | MortgageTax64.1% Traveling Salesman0.98 (3 samples) SWE-bench Verified63.4% (SWE-bench) SWE-bench Lite51.3% (SWE-bench) SWE-bench Multimodal25.3% (SWE-bench) | GPQA Diamond88.4% Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)27.8% (AA) IFBench75.2% (AA) SciCode40.7% τ²-bench (Tau²-bench)97.7% (AA) |
FAQ
- Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen3.6 Plus better?
- Across the 11 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Qwen3.6 Plus leads on 10 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Plus compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores 55.3% and Qwen3.6 Plus scores 88.4% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper at $3.00 per million output tokens against $15.00 for Claude 3.5 Sonnet - about 5.0x.
- When were Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Plus released?
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released 22 Oct 2024 by Anthropic. Qwen3.6 Plus was released 2 Apr 2026 by Alibaba.
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