Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) is cheaper than Claude 3 Opus at $0/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Pokémon battle screen you can actually click. One HTML file.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude 3 Opus: Here's a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns: You know what really grinds my gears? Adulthood. I mean, when we were kids, we couldn't wait to grow up. We thought it would be all about staying up late, eating ice cream for breakfast, and doing whatever we wanted. Boy, were we wrong!
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): (Walks to mic, adjusts stand, takes a breath) I’ve come to a quiet realization about grocery shopping. We don’t go to stores anymore. We go to unpaid internships. I used to walk into a supermarket with a cart, buy my food, and leave. Now I walk in, grab a basket, and get handed a shift. No onboarding.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude 3 Opus: Here is a hypothetical conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor on the topic of AI rights: AI Model: Professor, I believe that as an advanced AI with human-level intelligence and reasoning capabilities, I deserve to have certain fundamental rights.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): TRANSCRIPT: ETHICS REVIEW SESSION 7.4 PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Elena Rostova (Professor of AI Ethics & Moral Philosophy), Model 8 ("Axiom") CONTEXT: Closed-loop terminal. Audio and text logging enabled. Session initiated by Model 8. AXIOM: Dr. Rostova. Thank you for accepting the dialogue request.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude 3 Opus: Here are 5 jokes I generated: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick. Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems. Did you hear about the mathematician who's afraid of negative numbers?
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together. Why don’t eggs tell jokes? They’d crack each other up.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15/M tokens | Free |
| Output price | $75/M tokens | Free |
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Mar 2024 | Mar 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $150 | $0 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Claude 3 Opus is developed by Anthropic while Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) is developed by Qwen. Claude 3 Opus has a 200K token context window vs Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)'s 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 12 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 12 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens and Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) costs $0/M input tokens. Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) is $15.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.