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Claude Sonnet 4vsQwen3-Max
Claude Sonnet 4 leads 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. Qwen3-Max is 2.5x cheaper per token. Qwen3-Max has the larger context window (262K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 1
Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3-Max
2.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3-Max
262K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Qwen
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 1 only Claude Sonnet 4 · 2 only Qwen3-Max| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3-Max | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% ↗ | 69.6% ↗ | +3.1 pt | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% ↗epoch | 72.6% ↗epoch | +6.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 71.1% ↗epoch | 73.3% ↗epoch | -2.2 pt | Qwen3-Max |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4 reports · 1 | ||||
| AIME 2024 (no extended thinking) | 33.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3-Max reports · 2 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 18.9% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 48.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
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 minus Qwen3-Max 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 | Qwen3-Max | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 262K tokens | Qwen3-Max |
| Max output | 64K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $1.2 ↗ | Qwen3-Max |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $6 ↗ | Qwen3-Max |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.12 ↗ | Qwen3-Max |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $7.2 | Qwen3-Max |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-09-23 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 5 | — |
Reliability
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