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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Claude Opus 4.6 leads Qwen3.6 Plus on coding, 57.2 to 44.1 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.6 Plus costs 12.8x less per output token ($1.95 vs $25.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 73 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Opus 4.6 Replace Qwen3.6 Plus
Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic
Coding
57.2
Overall
66.0
Output $/M
$25.00
68
Qwen3.6 PlusQwen
Coding
44.1
Overall
56.2
Output $/M
$1.95
5
vs boards won of 73 shared

Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus: which to pick

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for coding: it scores 57.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 12.8x cheaper ($1.95 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($1.19 against $1.56).

Model AClaude Opus 4.6Anthropic57.2/1004 independent benchmarks$1.56 per solved taskModel BQwen3.6 PlusQwen44.1/1003 independent benchmarks$1.19 per solved task
Shared results
73
Claude Opus 4.6 only
37
Qwen3.6 Plus only
10
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Claude Opus 4.6 57.2 from 4 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 Plus 44.1 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
General, 11.9 points apart on average over 24 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Claude Opus 4.6 57.6% against Qwen3.6 Plus 25.6%, 32.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Opus 4.6 $25.00 against Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 per million output tokens, 12.8x apart.
Context window
Both take 1M tokens.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryClaude Opus 4.6BarsQwen3.6 PlusTies
Coding91
Intelligence20
Agentic work11
Reasoning91
Math50
Knowledge120
Web design80
General222
All shared boards685
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index91
Coding benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
SWE-bench Verified75.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
SWE-bench Multilingual72.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev15471461Claude Opus 4.6
AA Coding IndexNot measured54.5Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)84.7%86.0%Qwen3.6 Plus
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)78.2%73.4%Claude Opus 4.6
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)57.6%25.6%Claude Opus 4.6
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured11.1%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured53.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)48.5%43.9%Claude Opus 4.6
Terminal-Bench79.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
FrontierCode26.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
GSO-Bench41.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
WeirdML78.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Cybench93.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured670.1Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LMArena Text: coding15341467Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: software and IT15271462Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena WebDev: React15391454Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena WebDev: HTML15591463Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena WebDev: from an image15431472Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index31.927.0Claude Opus 4.6
Epoch Capabilities Index155.7147.3Claude Opus 4.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Design Arena: agents building web apps1206Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1220Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1207Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1197Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1212Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured40.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured7.7%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured14.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured32.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
τ²-Bench Telecom92.1%97.7%Qwen3.6 Plus
APEX-Agents46.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
METR time horizons78.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Remote Labor Index4.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
DeepResearch Bench55.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$8,018$5,115Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index91
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond89.7%87.4%Claude Opus 4.6
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)83.9%84.2%Qwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)89.6%88.2%Claude Opus 4.6
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)39.9%27.8%Claude Opus 4.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.5%88.4%Claude Opus 4.6
ARC-AGI94.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
ARC-AGI-269.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
SimpleBench67.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Chess puzzles21.0%14.0%Claude Opus 4.6
Mystery game puzzles25.0%12.0%Claude Opus 4.6
EBR-bench12.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts15251448Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: expert15441454Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English15301455Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams1340Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: homework1337Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Math benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AIME95.6%94.6%Claude Opus 4.6
OTIS Mock AIME94.4%93.3%Claude Opus 4.6
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 366.0%38.2%Claude Opus 4.6
FrontierMath, tier 426.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
ProofBench50.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: math15181449Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: mathematical work15251448Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro89.1%87.7%Claude Opus 4.6
LegalBench (Vals AI)85.3%84.2%Claude Opus 4.6
CaseLaw (Vals AI)62.1%51.5%Claude Opus 4.6
CorpFin (Vals AI)67.0%61.9%Claude Opus 4.6
TaxEval (Vals AI)76.0%74.7%Claude Opus 4.6
MortgageTax (Vals AI)68.5%68.0%Claude Opus 4.6
MedQA (Vals AI)95.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)49.1%36.9%Claude Opus 4.6
SimpleQA Verified47.0%44.1%Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: science15191439Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare15041442Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: legal and government15121437Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14971430Claude Opus 4.6
FACTS Benchmark Suite41.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Web design benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites12911243Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: UI components12821230Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: game dev12771211Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: data viz12801228Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: 3D12731202Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: all code categories12881235Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: SVG12271160Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: ASCII art12551113Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index222
General benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)51.6%44.9%Claude Opus 4.6
MedScribe (Vals AI)86.7%77.0%Claude Opus 4.6
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
IFBench53.1%75.2%Qwen3.6 Plus
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)78.0%78.3%Qwen3.6 Plus
DTBench91.2%81.9%Claude Opus 4.6
LMCA55.8%33.1%Claude Opus 4.6
CL-bench20.7%20.3%Claude Opus 4.6
Furniture assembly28.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
CL-bench Life17.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Text15011436Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: instruction following15211424Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: creative writing15051404Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision1316Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: English15111445Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: non-English14881424Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Chinese15511477Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: German15001451Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Japanese14881390Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Korean14641379Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: French15121455Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Spanish15101432Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Russian14971434Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Polish14991433Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn15111438Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: longer queries15181439Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: writing and language15021418Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14921402Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: English1324Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1370Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1326Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: humor1314Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1274Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1331Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Document1507Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Claude Opus 4.6$0.018Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.0013Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.6$0.325Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.022Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.6$1.25Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.085Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 Plus
MakerAnthropicQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedFebruary 4, 2026April 2, 2026
Context window1M1M
Input $/Mtok$5.00$0.325
Output $/Mtok$25.00$1.95
Coding index57.244.1
Independent measurements behind it43
Cost per solved task$1.56$1.19
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for coding: it scores 57.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus. Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 12.8x cheaper ($1.95 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($1.19 against $1.56).

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 and $1.95. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Opus 4.6 costs $1.56 and Qwen3.6 Plus $1.19.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Neither: both take 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus comparison based on?

73 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.6's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 Plus's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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