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Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen3-Max
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Max leads with 10.2% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3-Max offers 6.3K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Qwen3-Max is $16.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3-Max is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.7, released by Anthropic in February 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 3 family featuring hybrid reasoning with configurable extended thinking. It supports a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens (128K in beta), and native image understanding. Sonnet 3.7 targets complex coding, mathematics, and scientific reasoning tasks where extended chain-of-thought processing provides meaningful improvements in output quality.
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Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
6 months newer
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Qwen3-Max
Input:$0.50
Output:$1.50($16.00 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Average Score:61.8%
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Qwen3-Max
Average Score:72.0%(+10.2%)
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Agents61.8%
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Qwen3-Max
Agents72.0%(+10.2%)
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
2024-10
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
3 providers
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
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Qwen3-Max
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Avg Score:61.8%
Providers:3
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Qwen3-Max
Avg Score:72.0%(+10.2%)
Providers:1