Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Compare Claude Opus 4 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3 Max by Qwen, in 5 community votes, qwen: qwen3 max wins 67% 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 or Qwen: Qwen3 Max?
Qwen: Qwen3 Max is the better choice overall, winning 67% of 5 blind community votes on Rival. Claude Opus 4 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 and Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Claude Opus 4 is made by anthropic while Qwen: Qwen3 Max is from qwen. Claude Opus 4 has a 200K token context window compared to Qwen: Qwen3 Max's 256K. On pricing, Claude Opus 4 costs $15/M input tokens vs $1.2/M for Qwen: Qwen3 Max. In community voting, In 5 community votes, Qwen: Qwen3 Max wins 67% of head-to-head duels.
In 5 community votes, Qwen: Qwen3 Max wins 67% of head-to-head duels. Qwen: Qwen3 Max leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 5+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 Max is cheaper on both — 13× input, 13× output
Pick Qwen: Qwen3 Max. In 5 blind votes, Qwen: Qwen3 Max wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
Qwen: Qwen3 Max particularly excels in Image Generation. Qwen: Qwen3 Max is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
Qwen: Qwen3 Max uses 4.0x more emoji
