Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 180.5K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is $17.05 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3 235B, designed to follow user instructions while leveraging the model's large-scale architecture. Built to provide advanced instruction-following with efficient mixture-of-experts design, it serves applications requiring both capability and practical deployment.
2 months newer

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Novita