Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 8.0% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 235B A22B. Qwen3 235B A22B is $17.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
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.
6 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen3 235B A22B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita
Together