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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads Qwen3.7 Plus on coding, 57.3 to 33.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.7 Plus costs 11.7x less per output token ($1.28 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 74 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Sonnet 4.6 Replace Qwen3.7 Plus
Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic
Coding
57.3
Overall
60.3
Output $/M
$15.00
51
Qwen3.7 PlusQwen
Coding
33.2
Overall
54.0
Output $/M
$1.28
23
vs boards won of 74 shared

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3.7 Plus: which to pick

Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 for coding: it scores 57.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for output tokens 11.7x cheaper ($1.28 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by SkillsBench (Vals AI) or τ²-Bench Telecom, where it leads.

Model AClaude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic57.3/1005 independent benchmarks$1.68 per solved taskModel BQwen3.7 PlusQwen33.2/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
Shared results
74
Claude Sonnet 4.6 only
44
Qwen3.7 Plus only
1
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 Sonnet 4.6 57.3 from 5 benchmarks, Qwen3.7 Plus 33.2 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 13.6 points apart on average over 7 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Code migration (Vals AI): Claude Sonnet 4.6 39.9% against Qwen3.7 Plus 12.9%, 27.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Sonnet 4.6 $15.00 against Qwen3.7 Plus $1.28 per million output tokens, 11.7x 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 Sonnet 4.6BarsQwen3.7 PlusTies
Coding91
Intelligence20
Agentic work61
Reasoning54
Math12
Knowledge41
Web design53
General1911
All shared boards5123
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index91
Coding benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
LiveBench coding66.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev1523Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
AA Coding Index63.055.9Claude Sonnet 4.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)82.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)77.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)55.8%46.4%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Code migration (Vals AI)39.9%12.9%Claude Sonnet 4.6
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)57.3%52.8%Claude Sonnet 4.6
SkillsBench (Vals AI)49.0%54.3%Qwen3.7 Plus
SciCode50.1%46.1%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)53.0%47.0%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Terminal-Bench53.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
FrontierCode24.3%10.2%Claude Sonnet 4.6
WeirdML66.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: coding15031473Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: software and IT14911473Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena WebDev: React1512Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1527Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1529Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index30.125.2Claude Sonnet 4.6
Epoch Capabilities Index152.8147.0Claude Sonnet 4.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index61
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Agentic Index31.817.5Claude Sonnet 4.6
Design Arena: agents building web apps1190Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1213Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1212Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1197Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1226Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1177Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench research63.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench browser68.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench long agentic23.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)51.0%38.2%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)25.8%10.5%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)38.5%16.4%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)60.2%49.3%Claude Sonnet 4.6
τ²-Bench Telecom79.5%93.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
APEX-Agents43.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
OSWorld 2.09.3%2.8%Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepResearch Bench54.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
OSWorld72.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$7,204Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index54
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond85.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench reasoning86.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)83.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)87.5%90.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)33.6%35.6%Qwen3.7 Plus
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)87.4%87.9%Qwen3.7 Plus
ARC-AGI86.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
ARC-AGI-260.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Chess puzzles23.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Mystery game puzzles16.0%17.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: hard prompts14851460Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: expert15001466Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14931460Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams13061292Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision: homework13111295Claude Sonnet 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12
Math benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AIME92.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
OTIS Mock AIME85.8%93.3%Qwen3.7 Plus
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured34.4%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
ProofBench45.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: math14621467Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: mathematical work14831470Claude Sonnet 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro87.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)82.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)64.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)65.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)77.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)67.7%66.2%Claude Sonnet 4.6
MedQA (Vals AI)92.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SimpleQA Verified35.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: science14741464Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14511464Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: legal and government14701451Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14641435Claude Sonnet 4.6
FACTS Benchmark Suite37.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index53
Web design benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites12841269Claude Sonnet 4.6
Design Arena: UI components12691258Claude Sonnet 4.6
Design Arena: game dev12581261Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: data viz12781276Claude Sonnet 4.6
Design Arena: 3D12341238Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: all code categories12751269Claude Sonnet 4.6
Design Arena: SVG11961208Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: ASCII art12351143Claude Sonnet 4.6
LiveBench design71.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1911
General benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
LiveBench data analysis76.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)62.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)46.6%39.3%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vals Multimodal Index60.6%53.9%Claude Sonnet 4.6
IFBench56.6%78.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)80.0%73.0%Claude Sonnet 4.6
DTBench89.9%84.0%Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMCA46.5%37.6%Claude Sonnet 4.6
ExploitBench23.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text14581454Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: instruction following14761439Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: creative writing14351438Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision12831278Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: English14721458Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: non-English14401445Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Chinese14911509Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: German14281471Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Japanese14201412Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: Korean14101413Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: French14651472Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Spanish14641457Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: Russian14401457Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Polish14431449Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: multi-turn14641459Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: longer queries14791454Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: writing and language14441437Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14311422Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision: English12981280Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision: Chinese13071332Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: reading text12961288Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision: humor12481261Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1195Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing12721258Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Document14821444Claude Sonnet 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 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 Sonnet 4.6$0.011Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.0010Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.195Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.020Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.750Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.077Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 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 Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Plus
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.7 Plus
MakerAnthropicQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2026June 3, 2026
Context window1M1M
Input $/Mtok$3.00$0.32
Output $/Mtok$15.00$1.28
Coding index57.333.2
Independent measurements behind it52
Cost per solved task$1.68Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Qwen3.7 Plus for coding?

Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 for coding: it scores 57.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus. Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for output tokens 11.7x cheaper ($1.28 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by SkillsBench (Vals AI) or τ²-Bench Telecom, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.32 and $1.28. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Sonnet 4.6 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Neither: both take 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.7 Plus comparison based on?

74 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.6's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.7 Plus's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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