Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen Plus 0728
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against Qwen Plus 0728 by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen Plus 0728
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Qwen Plus 0728 is 63x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Qwen Plus 0728
Input
$0.40
38× cheaper
Output
$1.20
63× cheaper
Qwen Plus 0728 is cheaper on both — 38× input, 63× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
47%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 4.3x more sentence length
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen Plus 0728
61%Vocabulary55%
87wSentence Length20w
0.54Hedging0.43
5.1Bold5.9
6.7Lists4.1
0.38Emoji0.68
1.68Headings0.84
0.13Transitions0.16
Based on 17 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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