Model Comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Claude Opus 4.6 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

8 benchmarks

Claude Opus 4.6 outperforms in 6 benchmarks (GPQA, Humanity's Last Exam, MMMU-Pro, SWE-bench Multilingual, SWE-Bench Verified, Terminal-Bench 2.0), while Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is better at 2 benchmarks (CharXiv-R, MCP Atlas).

Claude Opus 4.6 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
Input tokens$5.00
Output tokens$25.00
Best providerAnthropic
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Opus 4.6 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Opus 4.6 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Both Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude Opus 4.6

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Opus 4.6 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen3.6-35B-A3B uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Opus 4.6

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Opus 4.6 was released on 2026-02-05, while Qwen3.6-35B-A3B was released on 2026-04-16.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is 2 months newer than Claude Opus 4.6.

Claude Opus 4.6

Feb 5, 2026

2 months ago

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Apr 16, 2026

2 days ago

2mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Anthropic
Larger context window (1,000,000 tokens)
Higher GPQA score (91.3% vs 86.0%)
Higher Humanity's Last Exam score (53.1% vs 21.4%)
Higher MMMU-Pro score (77.3% vs 75.3%)
Higher SWE-bench Multilingual score (77.8% vs 67.2%)
Higher SWE-Bench Verified score (80.8% vs 73.4%)
Higher Terminal-Bench 2.0 score (65.4% vs 51.5%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Has open weights
Higher CharXiv-R score (78.0% vs 77.4%)
Higher MCP Atlas score (62.8% vs 62.7%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Claude Opus 4.6 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks. Claude Opus 4.6 is made by Anthropic and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores Vending-Bench 2: 100.0%, AIME 2025: 99.8%, Tau2 Telecom: 99.3%, Graphwalks parents >128k: 95.4%, MRCR v2 (8-needle): 93.0%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scores MMLU-Redux: 93.3%, MMBench-V1.1: 92.8%, AI2D: 92.7%, AIME 2026: 92.7%, RefCOCO-avg: 92.0%.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports 1.0M tokens and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Claude Opus 4.6 is developed by Anthropic and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.