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Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vendorqwenanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score28.969.7
Input Price$0.31/M$3.00/M
Output Price$1.25/M$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output16,384128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index31.949.6
aider_polyglot-61.3
eqbench-80.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation 134 154
Code Review 132 161
Code Completion 129 120
Code Refactoring 132 162
Bug Fixing 136 166
Unit Test Generation 125 144
Code Documentation 129 142
Regex Writing 122 129
CI/CD Pipelines 121 138
Frontend Component Design 125 137
Data Analysis 128 147
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 145
ETL Scripting 127 150
JSON Extraction 131 125
Bulk Data Labeling 129 118
OCR / Document Parsing 129 140
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 140
Long-Document Summarization 134 161
Short-Form Summarization 125 118
Blog Post Writing 122 137

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

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