Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen3 235B A22B

Compare Claude Opus 4 by Anthropic against Qwen3 235B A22B by Qwen, in 10 community votes, claude opus 4 wins 78% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 33K, tested across 35 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.

Which is better, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen3 235B A22B?

Claude Opus 4 is the better choice overall, winning 78% of 10 blind community votes on Rival. Context windows: 200K vs 33K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.

Key Differences Between Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3 235B A22B

Claude Opus 4 is made by anthropic while Qwen3 235B A22B is from qwen. Claude Opus 4 has a 200K token context window compared to Qwen3 235B A22B's 33K. In community voting, In 10 community votes, Claude Opus 4 wins 78% of head-to-head duels.

In 10 community votes, Claude Opus 4 wins 78% of head-to-head duels. Claude Opus 4 leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 10+ human preference judgments for this pair.

Image Generation: Claude Opus 4 wins 83% of votes
Analysis: Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3 235B A22B are tied
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4
Claude Opus 4Winner
Qwen3 235B A22B
Qwen3 235B A22BRunner-up

Pick Claude Opus 4. In 10 blind votes, Claude Opus 4 wins 78% of the time. That's not luck.

Claude Opus 4 particularly excels in Image Generation.

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77%

Claude Opus 4 uses 52.1x more hedging

Claude Opus 4
Qwen3 235B A22B
64%Vocabulary68%
62wSentence Length9w
0.52Hedging0.00
4.4Bold5.8
9.1Lists3.7
0.11Emoji0.74
1.87Headings0.00
0.27Transitions0.12
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