LLM Comparison
Qwen3.6 Plus vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated May 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 75 66.1 | 52 5.7 |
| Family | Qwen | Claude |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Apr 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $0.33/M tokens | $3.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $1.95/M tokens | $15.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cache read: $0.3000/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisionvideocode | textvisioncodetool-use |
| Max Output | 66K tokens | 128K tokens |
| API Identifier | qwen/qwen3.6-plus | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA | 90.4alibaba | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.1alibaba | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.8alibaba | 72.5anthropic |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 61.6alibaba | 51anthropic |
| TAU3-Bench | 70.7alibaba | — |
| VideoMME | 87.8alibaba | — |
| MMLU | — | 86.7anthropic |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 89.9anthropic |
| MATH 500 | — | 54.2anthropic |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 41.5anthropic |
| Berkeley Function Calling | — | 88.3anthropic |
| HLE | — | 30openrouter |
| GPQA-AA Elo | — | 1674artificial-analysis |
| View Qwen3.6 Plus | View Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 PlusCheapest | $0.33 | $0.98 | $1.30 | — |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +708% |
Alibaba
Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen3.6 Plus is a multimodal llm from Alibaba. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Achieves 87.5% on MMLU. Available from $0.33/M input tokens.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal llm from Anthropic. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Achieves 88.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.
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