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Claude Sonnet 4.5vsQwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B leads 3 of 4 shared benchmarks. Qwen3.6 27B has the larger context window (262K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 3
Qwen3.6 27B leads · 1 tied
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3.6 27B
262K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Qwen
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic · released 2025-09-29
textvision
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen · released 2026-04-21
textvision
- Context
- 262K
- Max out
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- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 6 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 16 only Claude Sonnet 4.5 · 1 only Qwen3.6 27B| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% ↗ | 77.2% ↗ | 0 | Tie |
| GPQA Diamond | 83.4% ↗ | 87.8% ↗ | -4.4 pt | Qwen3.6 27B |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 23.9% ↗epoch | 35.1% ↗epoch | -11.2 pt | Qwen3.6 27B |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 77.8% ↗epoch | 91.1% ↗epoch | -13.3 pt | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 reports · 16 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | 84.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 17.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 13.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA | 1276 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 33.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 43.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 89.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 63.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 68.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 61.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 30.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 71.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 86.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 98% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 51% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6 27B reports · 1 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 86.2% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4.5 minus Qwen3.6 27B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 262K tokens | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Max output | 64K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-09-29 | 2026-04-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 21 | 6 | — |
Reliability
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