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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Supports vision
  • Has reasoning mode

Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16 wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorAnthropicQwen
ReleasedFeb 2026Unknown

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16 Modalities

Input
Output

Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16 has cheaper input pricing at $0.90/M tokens. Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16 has cheaper output pricing at $0.90/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16 has a 262,144 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. Qwen3 Coder 480B Instruct BF16 does not support vision.