Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Compare Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 5
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 5 has the edge — newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 is 42x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Input
$0.11
45× cheaper
Output
$0.60
42× cheaper
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 is cheaper on both — 45× input, 42× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
39%
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 uses 31.5x more emoji
Claude Opus 5
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
54%Vocabulary56%
21wSentence Length14w
0.40Hedging0.37
3.9Bold5.7
1.9Lists4.0
0.02Emoji0.54
0.71Headings0.70
0.05Transitions0.14
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