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Step 5 PreviewClaude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.7-Max-Preview
- Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1475.
- Qwen3.7-Max-Preview is cheaper: $1.48 / $4.42 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
- On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 3 and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview wins 3 (Claude Opus 4.6: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, MedCode).
LatestClaude Opus 4.6 1502Qwen3.7-Max-Preview 1475
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- Claude Opus 4.6
- Qwen3.7-Max-Preview
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Qwen3.7-Max-Preview |
|---|---|---|
| The model | ||
| Lab | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Released | 2026-02-04 | 2026-05-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Input, per 1M tokens | $5 | $1.48 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $25 | $4.42 |
| LMArena, people’s votes | ||
| LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer | 1502#6 of 351 | 1475#24 of 351 |
| LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one | 1546#45 of 124 | 1515#58 of 124 |
| LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image | 1316#6 of 146 | — |
| LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code | 1534#3 of 346 | 1497#29 of 346 |
| LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts | 1518#7 of 339 | 1488#23 of 339 |
| LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing | 1505#4 of 349 | 1448#35 of 349 |
| LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts | 1524#5 of 351 | 1482#35 of 351 |
| LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow | 1521#3 of 351 | 1460#40 of 351 |
| Vals AI, coding | ||
| SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects | 78.20%#30 of 85 | 68.80%#66 of 85 |
| Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works | 53.50%#57 of 115 | 47.67%#63 of 115 |
| LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination | 84.68%#38 of 143 | 87.06%#19 of 143 |
| Vals AI, finance | ||
| Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions | — | 15.83%#54 of 76 |
| Vals AI, law | ||
| Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research | — | 25.48%#59 of 85 |
| Vals AI, medicine | ||
| MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes | 48.24%#30 of 107 | 38.75%#70 of 107 |
| MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias | 95.41%#12 of 92 | — |
| Vals AI, reasoning | ||
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not | 89.65%#29 of 138 | 90.15%#25 of 138 |
| MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering | 89.11%#15 of 138 | 89.31%#12 of 138 |
| AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad | 95.63%#9 of 96 | — |
| MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text | 83.87%#29 of 93 | — |
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Questions
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen3.7-Max-Preview?
Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1475. Qwen3.7-Max-Preview is cheaper: $1.48 / $4.42 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6. On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 3 and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview wins 3 (Claude Opus 4.6: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, MedCode).
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen3.7-Max-Preview?
Qwen3.7-Max-Preview is cheaper: $1.48 / $4.42 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.