Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 leads with 10.9% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B offers 24.0K more tokens in context window than Claude Opus 4.1. Qwen3 235B A22B is $89.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.1 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 represents an iteration within the Claude 4 Opus line, built to deliver refined performance in complex reasoning and analysis tasks. Developed as part of Anthropic's flagship tier, it incorporates improvements to the foundational capabilities that define the Opus family of models.
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.
3 months newer

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
2025-08-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4.1

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Claude Opus 4.1

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4.1

Qwen3 235B A22B

Claude Opus 4.1

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita
Together