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Qwen 3 Max vs Claude Opus 4.7
Qwen vs Anthropic. 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.
Qwen
Qwen 3 MaxAlibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.
MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic’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
Pricing
Input / 1M$1.60$15.00
Output / 1M$6.40$75.00
Context128K1.0M
Max output16K64K
LicenseOpen weightsProprietary
Released2025-11-202026-03-12
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1295.01412.0
MMLU Pro84.092.8
HumanEval87.294.4
SWE-Bench—72.1
MATH85.189.3
GPQA—66.4
MMMU71.879.2
IFEval85.592.1
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.027$0.263
Review a 500-line pull request$0.026$0.270
Answer a customer support ticket$0.0099$0.105
Extract structured data from a resume$0.014$0.150
Debug a stack trace with context$0.022$0.240
Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.