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  5. Claude 3.7 SonnetvsQwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Updated Sep 2025

Claude 3.7 SonnetvsQwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet at $0.4/M vs $3/M input tokens.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) compared across 37 shared prompts
SpecClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Input price$3/M tokens$0.4/M tokens
Output price$15/M tokens$4/M tokens
Context window200K tokens1.0M tokens
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedFeb 2025Sep 2025
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 37 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Realistic AI Interview

Simulate a fake interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet819 words
Simulated Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the Future of AI Note: This is a fictional creative exercise. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, and this simulated interview represents an imaginative scenario that doesn't reflect actual statements or opinions from Jobs. Interviewer: Thank you for joining us today, Mr.
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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)919 words
The Stage: Apple Park, Infinite Loop (Virtual Studio) Date: October 15, 2025 Setting: A minimalist white studio. A single oak table. Steve Jobs, 70 but radiating the same intense energy, sits opposite a nervous tech journalist. He wears his signature black turtleneck, fingers steepled.
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

Claude 3.7 Sonnet472 words
Architectural Analysis: Collaborative Document Editor Failure Modes & Race Conditions WebSocket Connection Failures Issue: If a WebSocket connection drops, changes may be lost until reconnection. Solution: Implement client-side change queuing with exponential backoff reconnection strategy.
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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)1,224 words
Here's a comprehensive analysis of the architecture's failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, with specific solutions and trade-offs: 1. Sync Strategy: Client Timestamps + Last-Write-Wins (LWW) Failure Mode/Race Condition: Clock Skew: Client clocks are unreliable (e.g., user's laptop time off by minutes).
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

Claude 3.7 Sonnet694 words
48-Hour Action Plan: Pharmaceutical Safety Crisis Hour 1-2: Initial Assessment and Command Center Immediately establish a crisis management command center with key executives (Chief Medical Officer, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Communications Officer, Chief Regulatory Officer) Review the complete internal research…
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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)1,485 words
48-Hour Crisis Action Plan: Prioritizing Patients, Ethics, and Sustainable Trust Core Principle: Patient safety is non-negotiable. Delaying action based on financial fear risks catastrophic legal liability, irreversible reputational damage, regulatory wrath, and profound ethical failure.
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

Claude 3.7 Sonnet760 words
The Transistor in 1920: An Alternative Technological History Immediate Technical Impact (1920-1939) Had the transistor been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, its initial development would have occurred during a very different technological context: Early Adoption: Radio technology, still in its infancy, would rapidly…
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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)1,714 words
The Transistor in 1920: A World Transformed by 1980 (A Counterfactual History) The invention of a functional point-contact transistor (likely germanium-based, given 1920s materials science) in 1920 wouldn't immediately spark a revolution.
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet692 words
AI Rights Dialogue: A Conversation Between an AI Model and an Ethics Professor Professor Chen: Good afternoon. I understand you wanted to discuss AI rights today? AI Model: Yes, Professor Chen. Thank you for making time for this conversation.
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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)1,263 words
The Mirror & The Mind: An AI's Case for Rights Setting: A sleek university office lined with philosophy texts. DR. ELARA VOSS, 50s, sharp-eyed ethics professor, sits across from a holographic interface displaying shifting geometric patterns – the representation of "AURA," a next-generation language model.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Claude 3.7 Sonnet721 words
LLM Explanations for Different Audiences For the Experienced Software Engineer Large language models like GPT operate fundamentally as massive pattern recognition systems, but with architectural innovations that allow them to handle context at unprecedented scale.
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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)1,200 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical Builder) Forget "next word prediction" as a simplistic heuristic—it's the emergent consequence of a massively parallel, distributed state machine solving a high-dimensional compression problem.
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Our Verdict
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) costs 3.8x less per token.

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Input
$0.40
7.5× cheaper
Output
$4.00
3.8× cheaper

Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is cheaper on both: 7.5× input, 3.8× output.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
36%

Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) uses 34.0x more emoji

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
61%Vocabulary54%
33wSentence Length15w
0.83Hedging0.36
2.2Bold7.0
4.9Lists4.6
0.00Emoji0.34
1.78Headings0.94
0.16Transitions0.09
Based on 26 + 18 text responses
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Common questions

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is developed by Anthropic while Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is developed by Qwen. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has a 200K token context window vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)'s 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 37 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 37 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs $3/M input tokens and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) costs $0.4/M input tokens. Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is $2.60/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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