Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3 Max by Qwen, in 17 community votes, claude opus 4.1 wins 56% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 256K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Image Generation: Claude Opus 4.1 wins 67% of votes
Web Design: Claude Opus 4.1 wins 80% of votes
Reasoning: Qwen: Qwen3 Max wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1Winner
Qwen: Qwen3 MaxRunner-up
Claude Opus 4.1 has the edge overall. In 17 blind votes, Claude Opus 4.1 wins 56% of the time.
Pick Claude Opus 4.1 for Web Design, Image Generation. Pick Qwen: Qwen3 Max for Reasoning. Qwen: Qwen3 Max is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Input
$1.20
13× cheaper
Output
$6.00
13× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 Max is cheaper on both — 13× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
67%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 3.1x more sentence length
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
61%Vocabulary60%
87wSentence Length28w
0.54Hedging0.48
5.1Bold5.7
6.7Lists4.1
0.38Emoji0.45
1.68Headings0.78
0.13Transitions0.18
Based on 17 + 22 text responses
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