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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vendorqwenanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score43.269.7
Input Price$0.33/M$3.00/M
Output Price$1.95/M$15.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index44.649.6
aider_polyglot-61.3
eqbench-80.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation 139 154
Code Review 140 161
Code Completion 132 120
Code Refactoring 143 162
Bug Fixing 144 166
Unit Test Generation 129 144
Code Documentation 135 142
Regex Writing 124 129
CI/CD Pipelines 125 138
Frontend Component Design 127 137
Data Analysis 130 147
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 145
ETL Scripting 134 150
JSON Extraction 131 125
Bulk Data Labeling 129 118
OCR / Document Parsing 133 140
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 140
Long-Document Summarization 144 161
Short-Form Summarization 125 118
Blog Post Writing 127 137

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

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