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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest	Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendor	~anthropic	qwen
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	26.9
Input Price	$2.00/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$10.00/M	$1.00/M
Context Window	1,000,000	262,144
Max Output	128,000	235,929
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	30.1

Who wins by task?

Task	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest	Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation	132	134
Code Review	132	132
Code Completion	117	129
Code Refactoring	136	132
Bug Fixing	136	136
Unit Test Generation	124	124
Code Documentation	129	129
Regex Writing	117	122
CI/CD Pipelines	120	120
Frontend Component Design	122	125
Data Analysis	124	128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	132	129
ETL Scripting	128	126
JSON Extraction	121	131
Bulk Data Labeling	118	129
OCR / Document Parsing	131	129
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	129
Long-Document Summarization	136	134
Short-Form Summarization	113	125
Blog Post Writing	120	122

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