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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.5-27B

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Has reasoning mode

Qwen3.5-27B wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time
Price Advantage
Qwen3.5-27B
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Qwen3.5-27B

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.5-27B
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.5-27B
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorAnthropicQwen
ReleasedFeb 2026Feb 2026

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Qwen3.5-27B Modalities

Input
textimagevideo
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen3.5-27B has cheaper input pricing at $0.20/M tokens. Qwen3.5-27B has cheaper output pricing at $0.90/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 47.6, compared to Qwen3.5-27B's score of 33.4.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while Qwen3.5-27B has a 262,144 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. Qwen3.5-27B supports vision.