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Claude Sonnet 4 vs QwQ-32B-Preview
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 10.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 262.5K more tokens in context window than QwQ-32B-Preview. QwQ-32B-Preview is $17.65 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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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.
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ 32B Preview was introduced as an early access version of the QwQ reasoning model, designed to allow researchers and developers to experiment with advanced analytical capabilities. Built to gather feedback on reasoning-enhanced architecture, it represents an experimental step toward more thoughtful language models.
5 months newer
QwQ-32B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-11-28
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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QwQ-32B-Preview
Input:$0.15
Output:$0.20($17.65 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 4
Average Score:75.4%(+10.2%)
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QwQ-32B-Preview
Average Score:65.2%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
QwQ-32B-Preview
2024-11-28
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4
4 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
Bedrock
Throughput: 101 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4
Avg Score:75.4%(+10.2%)
Providers:4
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QwQ-32B-Preview
Avg Score:65.2%
Providers:4