Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Compare Claude Opus 4 by Anthropic against Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 37 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
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 (thinking) is 19x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Input
$0.40
38× cheaper
Output
$4.00
19× cheaper
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is cheaper on both — 38× input, 19× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
62%
Claude Opus 4 uses 4.2x more sentence length
Claude Opus 4
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
64%Vocabulary54%
62wSentence Length15w
0.52Hedging0.36
4.4Bold7.0
9.1Lists4.6
0.11Emoji0.34
1.87Headings0.94
0.27Transitions0.09
Based on 16 + 18 text responses
Research
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