Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B are both competitive models. Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15/M input tokens vs $0.1612/M for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B. Context windows: 200K vs 262K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Claude Opus 4.1 is made by anthropic while Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is from qwen. Claude Opus 4.1 has a 200K token context window compared to Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B's 262K. On pricing, Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15/M input tokens vs $0.1612/M for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B.
Per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 93× input, 78× output
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.1 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 78x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 5.8x more sentence length
