Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Input
$0.25
20× cheaper
Output
$2.00
13× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 20× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
49%
Claude Opus 4.6 uses 20.7x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
53%Vocabulary51%
35wSentence Length15w
0.68Hedging0.39
5.2Bold6.8
2.9Lists4.8
0.21Emoji0.00
1.34Headings0.84
0.03Transitions0.14
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