Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 51 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 is 6.3x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Input
$0.40
7.5× cheaper
Output
$2.40
6.3× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 is cheaper on both — 7.5× input, 6.3× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
40%
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 uses 153.4x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
66%Vocabulary59%
74wSentence Length15w
0.72Hedging0.28
0.3Bold4.4
8.9Lists2.5
0.00Emoji1.53
0.06Headings0.76
0.09Transitions0.04
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