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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

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

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendoranthropicqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score92.068.6
Input Price$2.00/M$0.33/M
Output Price$10.00/M$1.95/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index88.065.3
ai_index_agentic77.045.5
ai_index_coding100.090.0

Who wins by task?

TaskAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 171 163
Code Review 167 158
Code Completion 119 132
Code Refactoring 164 157
Bug Fixing 180 168
Unit Test Generation 154 148
Code Documentation 141 140
Regex Writing 135 132
CI/CD Pipelines 144 139
Frontend Component Design 146 141
Data Analysis 171 159
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 151
ETL Scripting 154 148
JSON Extraction 138 146
Bulk Data Labeling 124 134
OCR / Document Parsing 146 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 144
Long-Document Summarization 159 154
Short-Form Summarization 122 130
Blog Post Writing 140 135

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

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