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.
Image Generation: Qwen: Qwen3 Max wins 67% of votes
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3 MaxWinner
Claude Opus 4Runner-up
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.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Input
$1.20
13× cheaper
Output
$6.00
13× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 Max is cheaper on both — 13× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
68%
Qwen: Qwen3 Max uses 4.0x more emoji
Claude Opus 4
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
64%Vocabulary60%
62wSentence Length28w
0.52Hedging0.48
4.4Bold5.7
9.1Lists4.1
0.11Emoji0.45
1.87Headings0.78
0.27Transitions0.18
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