Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Claude 3 Opus offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 235B A22B. Qwen3 235B A22B is $89.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
1 year newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3 235B A22B

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita
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