Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Compare Claude Sonnet 5 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 5
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Sonnet 5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 10x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5
Input
$2.00
Output
$10.00
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
12× cheaper
Output
$0.97
10× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 12× input, 10× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
74%
Claude Sonnet 5 uses 2.3x more sentence length
Claude Sonnet 5
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
59%Vocabulary59%
35wSentence Length15w
0.53Hedging0.31
3.5Bold4.9
3.5Lists2.7
0.79Emoji1.60
1.25Headings0.75
0.06Transitions0.05
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