Claude 4 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Head to head on 19 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba | 61.9% | 88.2% | 27.8% | 75.2% | 73.5% | 78.2% | 69.9% | 58.3% | 75.0% | 83.7% | 75.8% | 36.9% | 77.0% | 68.0% | 44.9% | 40.7% | 74.7% | 43.9% | 97.7% | - | - | 95.3 | - | - | 23.0% | - | - | - | 40.8% | 26.2% | - | 96.7 | 83.2% | - | - | - | 88.5 | 94.5 | - | 89.5 | - | - | - | 73.8 | - | - | - | 59.5 | - | 32.0% | 51.5% | 25.6% | - | - | 59.0% |
| Claude 4 Sonnet Anthropic | 54.7% | 68.3% | 4.3% | 45.4% | 64.8% | 77.5% | 54.6% | 44.3% | 72.9% | 70.5% | 69.0% | 33.9% | 72.4% | 62.5% | 35.0% | 37.3% | 69.6% | 27.3% | 52.3% | 40.7% | 38.0% | - | 22.9% | 47.8% | - | 19.8% | 1480elo | 58.4 | - | - | 67.5% | - | - | 44.9% | 93.4% | 86.7% | - | - | 83.7% | - | 43.9% | 6.18 | 6.18 | - | 58.3% | 35.6% | 74.6% | - | 0.59 | - | - | - | 84.0% | 84.0% | 55.5% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude 4 Sonnet Anthropic | Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude 4 Sonnet 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 May 2025 | 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 | GPQA Diamond88.2% (AA) Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)27.8% (AA) IFBench75.2% (AA) SciCode40.7% (AA) τ²-bench (Tau²-bench)97.7% (AA) |
FAQ
- Is Claude 4 Sonnet or Qwen3.6 Plus better?
- Across the 19 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Qwen3.6 Plus leads on 19 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude 4 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Plus compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude 4 Sonnet scores 68.3% and Qwen3.6 Plus scores 88.2% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude 4 Sonnet or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper at $3.00 per million output tokens against $15.00 for Claude 4 Sonnet - about 5.0x.
- When were Claude 4 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Plus released?
- Claude 4 Sonnet was released 22 May 2025 by Anthropic. Qwen3.6 Plus was released 2 Apr 2026 by Alibaba.
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