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. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen: Qwen3 Max?
Claude Opus 4.1 is the better choice overall, winning 56% of 17 blind community votes on Rival. Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15/M input tokens vs $1.2/M for Qwen: Qwen3 Max. Context windows: 200K vs 256K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Claude Opus 4.1 is made by anthropic while Qwen: Qwen3 Max is from qwen. Claude Opus 4.1 has a 200K token context window compared to Qwen: Qwen3 Max's 256K. On pricing, Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15/M input tokens vs $1.2/M for Qwen: Qwen3 Max. In community voting, In 17 community votes, Claude Opus 4.1 wins 56% of head-to-head duels.
In 17 community votes, Claude Opus 4.1 wins 56% of head-to-head duels. Claude Opus 4.1 leads in Image Generation, Web Design, while Qwen: Qwen3 Max leads in Reasoning. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 17+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 Max is cheaper on both — 13× input, 13× output
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.
Style Comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 3.1x more sentence length
