Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 9.7% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Sonnet offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 235B A22B. Qwen3 235B A22B is $17.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3 235B A22B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet was introduced as the balanced middle tier of the Claude 3 family, offering a combination of strong capabilities and operational speed. Designed to provide an optimal tradeoff between intelligence and performance for everyday tasks, it served as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications.
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 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Sonnet

Qwen3 235B A22B

Claude 3 Sonnet

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 235B A22B
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Novita
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