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Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen 3 Max

Anthropic vs Qwen. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on LMSYS ELO (1412 vs 1295). Qwen 3 Max is ~10.7× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend. Qwen 3 Max is open-weights, the other is proprietary.

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model. Leads SWE-Bench and holds top ranks on long-context coding and agentic workflows.

Best-in-class coding agent behaviorStrong instruction following1M-token context with high recallHigh reliability under tool use

Qwen

Qwen 3 Max

Alibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

Pricing

Input / 1M$15.00$1.60

Output / 1M$75.00$6.40

Context1.0M128K

Max output64K16K

LicenseProprietaryOpen weights

Released2026-03-122025-11-20

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1412.01295.0

MMLU Pro92.884.0

HumanEval94.487.2

SWE-Bench72.1—

MATH89.385.1

GPQA66.4—

MMMU79.271.8

IFEval92.185.5

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.263$0.027

Review a 500-line pull request$0.270$0.026

Answer a customer support ticket$0.105$0.0099

Extract structured data from a resume$0.150$0.014

Debug a stack trace with context$0.240$0.022

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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