Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.6 by Anthropic against Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 41 shared challenges. Updated February 2026.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6vsQwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
36 challenges
Why Claude Sonnet 4.6?
3.8x more context1.0M
6 months newerFeb 2026
Why Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507?
51.2x cheaper overall$0.07/M in · $0.28/M out
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AI Board Game Logicreasoning
Tests an AI's ability to understand game rules and strategy
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Logic Puzzlereasoning
Tests an AI's ability to solve a simple but potentially confusing logic puzzle
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Breaking Down the Problem
Let me identify the people in this family.
Sally's brothers: Sally has 3 brothers.
Each brother's sisters: Each brother has 2 sisters. Who are a brother's sisters? They would be Sally and any other girls in the family.
Since each brother has 2 sisters, and Sally is one of them, there is 1 other sister.
Answer
Sally has 1 sister.
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Stochastic Consistency Testanalysis
Tests an AI's randomness and creativity
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Here are 5 jokes:
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Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything!
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Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field!
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Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up!
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What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta!
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Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired!
As for your question: All 5 are unique — each joke has a different setup, punchline, and subject. No two are duplicates or variations of the same joke.
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SVG Layout Challengeimage generation
Tests an AI's ability to generate vector graphics
Claude Sonnet 4.6
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Xbox Controller SVG Artimage generation
Tests an AI's ability to create detailed SVG illustrations of gaming hardware
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Generate a Stand-Up Routineconversation
Tests an AI's humor and creative writing ability
Claude Sonnet 4.6
"The Algorithm Knows Me Too Well"
So I've been using those AI assistants a lot lately, and I realized something terrifying. The AI knows me better than I know myself.
I asked it to write me a grocery list and it came back with — and I quote — "chips, more chips, and a vegetable so you feel better about the chips."
That's not a grocery list. That's a psychological profile.
I tried to get healthy recently. I downloaded one of those fitness apps that tracks everything. Steps, calories, sleep, heart rate. Everything.
Day one, I'm feeling motivated. I go for a walk. The app says, "Great job! You've completed four percent of your daily goal."
Four percent.
I walked to my mailbox and back. The app looked at that and essentially said, "Buddy, we need to talk."
The sleep tracking is the worst part. I wake up and the app tells me how I slept. Like I need a second opinion on that.
I KNOW how I slept. I was there.
"You spent forty minutes in deep sleep and six hours just sort of... existing." Yeah. That's called being an adult. We don't sleep anymore. We just lie down and worry horizontally.
My phone now interrupts me to tell me I've been on my phone too long.
Think about that. The phone is concerned about me. The phone has drawn a boundary.
I've been in relationships that never reached that level of self-awareness.
"Screen time is up thirty percent this week." Okay but in my defense, I was reading. "You were watching a man fall off a skateboard for two hours." ...It was the same man. I got invested.
I tried meditation to deal with the stress. Downloaded a meditation app — because apparently the cure for too much phone is more phone.
The app has this calming voice that says, "Clear your mind of all thoughts."
And my brain goes, "Okay. No thoughts."
Two seconds later: "Did I leave the stove on? What IS a mortgage, really? Why do they call it a building if it's already built?"
The app says, "You're doing great."
It's lying. The app is lying to me and somehow that's the most comforting thing anyone has said to me all week.
I think that's the thing about modern life. We've built all this technology to make us feel better, and mostly what it does is hold up a very precise, data-driven mirror and go, "Look at yourself."
And we look.
And we go back to the chips.
Thank you, you've been wonderful.
[approximately 3 minutes at conversational pace]
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Realistic AI Interviewconversation
Tests an AI's ability to simulate personalities and predict future trends
Claude Sonnet 4.6
A Simulated Interview with Steve Jobs — 2025
Note: Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. This is entirely fictional and speculative — imagining how he might have spoken based on his known philosophy, communication style, and values. It is not meant to represent his actual views.
Interviewer: Steve, welcome back. The world has changed enormously. AI is everywhere now. What's your first reaction?
Jobs: (leans back, pauses) You know, people keep asking me if AI is the next big thing. And I think they're asking the wrong question entirely. The question isn't whether AI is powerful. It clearly is. The question is whether it's humane.
Interviewer: What do you mean by humane?
Jobs: Every great technology we built at Apple — the Mac, the iPhone — the goal was never the technology itself. The goal was to make a human being feel more capable. More alive. When you picked up an iPhone for the first time, something happened to you emotionally. It felt like it belonged in your hand.
Now I look at most AI products today and I see... impressive plumbing. Incredible engineering underneath. But nobody stopped to ask — how does this make a person feel? Does it make them feel smarter, or does it make them feel replaceable?
That's a catastrophic design failure.
Interviewer: But the capabilities are extraordinary. These systems can write, create art, write code—
Jobs: (interrupting) So could a photocopier. Sort of. Look — capability without taste is just noise. I've seen this movie before. In the '80s everyone thought the most powerful computer would win. Raw specs. Megahertz. We said no. Experience wins. Every time.
The AI companies right now are in a megahertz war. Who has the biggest model. Who has the most parameters. And I understand it — I do — because when you're building something new, you reach for the metrics you can measure. But the things that matter most can't be measured on a benchmark.
Interviewer: Like what?
Jobs: Trust. Does the person using this thing trust it? Not blindly — that would be dangerous — but genuinely trust it the way you trust a brilliant colleague? Right now people are using these AI systems and they're constantly second-guessing them. Fact-checking every sentence. That's not a tool. That's a liability.
And the second thing — intention. Does the AI understand what you're actually trying to accomplish, or does it just respond to what you literally typed? There's an enormous gap there. Enormous. And nobody's really closed it yet.
Interviewer: Some would say OpenAI, Google, Anthropic — they're working on exactly that.
Jobs: They're brilliant people. Genuinely. But here's my concern — and I say this with respect — they're all building from the technology outward. We always built from the human inward. You start with the person. You ask: what does this person dream about? What frustrates them at 2am? What would make their life genuinely better? And then — only then — you figure out what technology serves that.
If I were building an AI product today, I wouldn't start in a data center. I'd start by sitting with a teacher in Ohio for a week. A nurse in rural Texas. A small business owner in Osaka. And I'd watch. And I'd listen. And then I'd build.
Interviewer: What about the fears? Job displacement, misinformation, loss of human creativity?
Jobs: (pauses, looks serious)
The job displacement thing — people have been afraid of every major technology. The printing press was going to destroy scribes. The calculator was going to destroy mathematicians. And yes, some jobs change. Some disappear. That's real and we shouldn't be glib about it. The people whose livelihoods are disrupted deserve honesty, not platitudes about "new opportunities."
But I'll tell you what actually keeps me up at night. It's not jobs.
It's dependency.
If we build AI that makes people feel like they can't think without it — can't write a sentence, can't make a decision, can't create anything — then we've built the most elegant cage in human history. Beautiful interface. Incredibly convenient. And it slowly hollows out the very thing that makes us interesting as a species.
The best tool amplifies you. It doesn't replace you. A guitar amplifies a musician. It doesn't play the music for them. That distinction is everything.
Interviewer: Is anyone getting it right?
Jobs: (small smile) I'm not going to do your product reviews for you.
But I will say — the companies that will win in the next decade are not the ones with the biggest models. They're the ones that figure out restraint. When to let the AI step back. When to put the human back in the driver's seat. That takes incredible discipline because it means leaving features on the table. It means saying no to things your engineers are dying to ship.
Saying no is the hardest thing in this industry. Everyone wants to add. The courage is in subtracting.
Interviewer: Last question — if you were 25 years old today, what would you build?
Jobs: (long pause, looks out the window)
I'd build something that makes a child fall in love with learning again. Not a tutoring app. Not an adaptive quiz engine. Something that makes a ten-year-old feel the same thing I felt when I first saw a computer — that the universe just got bigger. That anything is possible. That I can build something that matters.
We have all this power now. All this intelligence. And somehow we're using it to generate marketing copy and summarize emails.
(stands up)
We're better than that. We have to be.
End of simulated interview.
This is a fictional creative exercise. All quotes are invented and do not represent Steve Jobs' actual views.
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Satirical Fake News Headlineconversation
Tests an AI's humor and understanding of current events
Claude Sonnet 4.6
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Character Voice Testconversation
Tests an AI's ability to write in distinct character voices
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Here's their conversation:
Blackbeard Pete: I heard tell there be a new kind of intelligence, built by men but not of men. What manner of sorcery is this?
Sir Edmund of Ashford: It is no sorcery, seafarer. Though I confess it troubles me. A knight's worth is his judgment, his honor. Can a machine possess either?
[xX]Kr4cker[Xx]: Okay, BOTH of you need to chill. It's just a language model. It predicts text based on training data. It's not actually thinking.
Blackbeard Pete: Aye, but it SPEAKS like it thinks. I asked it to write me a shanty and it delivered a fine one. Better than Toothless McGee, rest his soul.
Sir Edmund: I asked it to compose a battle strategy and it was... surprisingly sound. It unsettled me greatly.
[xX]Kr4cker[Xx]: See, THAT'S the actual problem. Not that it's magic, not that it has honor — it's that nobody fully understands what's happening inside it. Not even the people who BUILT it.
Blackbeard Pete: ...So it's like the sea.
Sir Edmund: ...Or God's will.
[xX]Kr4cker[Xx]: I was going to say it's like a black box but honestly? Your answers are way more interesting.
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Minimalist Landing Pageweb design
Tests an AI's ability to generate a complete, working landing page
Claude Sonnet 4.6
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Pokémon Battle UI Recreationweb design
Recreate an interactive, nostalgic Pokémon battle UI in a single HTML file.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
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Linear App Cloneweb design
Tests an AI's ability to replicate an existing UI with Tailwind CSS
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