Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 262K, tested across 42 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 16x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
19× cheaper
Output
$0.97
16× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 19× input, 16× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
47%
Claude Sonnet 4.5 uses 6.2x more sentence length
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
64%Vocabulary59%
94wSentence Length15w
0.48Hedging0.31
4.9Bold4.9
8.0Lists2.7
0.45Emoji1.60
1.91Headings0.75
0.07Transitions0.05
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