Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 offers 59.1K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is $14.70 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 Thinking was developed as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the large-scale Qwen3 architecture. Built to combine deliberate analytical processing with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves tasks requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
2 months newer

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Novita