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Anthropic
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Qwen
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Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen3 Max

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Sonnet 4 wins:

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

Qwen3 Max wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
  • Better at math
Price Advantage
Qwen3 Max
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Sonnet 4
Context Window
Qwen3 Max
Speed
Claude Sonnet 4

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 Max
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 Max
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicQwen
ReleasedMay 2025Sep 2025

Claude Sonnet 4 Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

Qwen3 Max Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen3 Max has cheaper input pricing at $0.78/M tokens. Qwen3 Max has cheaper output pricing at $3.90/M tokens.
Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 30.6, compared to Qwen3 Max's score of 25.5.
Claude Sonnet 4 has a 200,000 token context window, while Qwen3 Max has a 262,144 token context window.
Claude Sonnet 4 supports vision. Qwen3 Max does not support vision.