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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-02.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendoranthropicqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score92.053.1
Input Price$2.00/M$0.14/M
Output Price$10.00/M$1.00/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output128,000262,144
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index88.052.2
ai_index_agentic77.035.3
ai_index_coding100.069.1

Who wins by task?

TaskAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 171 154
Code Review 167 147
Code Completion 119 130
Code Refactoring 164 144
Bug Fixing 180 156
Unit Test Generation 154 140
Code Documentation 141 133
Regex Writing 135 129
CI/CD Pipelines 144 132
Frontend Component Design 146 137
Data Analysis 171 151
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 141
ETL Scripting 154 138
JSON Extraction 138 143
Bulk Data Labeling 124 133
OCR / Document Parsing 146 138
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 138
Long-Document Summarization 159 142
Short-Form Summarization 122 128
Blog Post Writing 140 130

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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