Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family that delivers a balance of performance and efficiency for coding, reasoning, and analytical tasks. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4 targets development workflows, document analysis, and applications that benefit from the performance characteristics of the Claude 4 generation.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3 Coder Next is a coding-specialized open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen3 family, built on the Qwen3-Next architecture with hybrid attention and Mixture-of-Experts design optimized for local development and agentic coding workflows. It targets on-device and self-hosted deployments requiring a capable coding agent that can operate within consumer hardware constraints.
8 months newer

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-14
Qwen3 Coder Next
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-02-04
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Sonnet 4
2025-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Qwen3 Coder Next
Claude Sonnet 4
Qwen3 Coder Next
Claude Sonnet 4
Qwen3 Coder Next