Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet by Anthropic against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 66K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is 20x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Input
$6.00
Output
$30.00
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Input
$0.15
40× cheaper
Output
$1.50
20× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is cheaper on both — 40× input, 20× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
28%
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking uses 57.7x more emoji
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
61%Vocabulary54%
49wSentence Length16w
0.64Hedging0.31
2.2Bold6.0
4.5Lists4.5
0.00Emoji0.58
1.81Headings0.88
0.21Transitions0.10
Based on 21 + 17 text responses
Research
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