Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B offers 38.3K more tokens in context window than Claude Opus 4.1. Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B is $89.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.1 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1, released by Anthropic in August 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family optimized for demanding reasoning, multi-step coding, and extended analysis tasks. It features a 200K token context window, 32K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking capabilities. Opus 4.1 targets complex problem-solving, multi-turn reasoning workflows, and applications requiring deep analysis with integrated tool use.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
2025-08-05
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Claude Opus 4.1
2025-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
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