Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Compare Claude Sonnet 5 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 5
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5
Input
$2.00
Output
$10.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Input
$1.20
1.7× cheaper
Output
$6.00
1.7× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking is cheaper on both — 1.7× input, 1.7× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
66%
Claude Sonnet 5 uses 2.4x more sentence length
Claude Sonnet 5
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
59%Vocabulary61%
35wSentence Length15w
0.53Hedging0.23
3.5Bold5.2
3.5Lists3.9
0.79Emoji1.37
1.25Headings1.22
0.06Transitions0.04
Based on 27 + 13 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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